Kenyans celebrated warmly when Barack Hussein Obama won the US
presidency in 2008. All these years later, the first mixed race American
head of state has visited the African continent four times but kept the
Kenyans waiting.
In Obama’s father’s village of Kogelo, they could use some cheering up; the official word is he’s not going to visit them.
Villager Richard Okello said: “[We’re] very disappointed. We want
our boy to come to our place, let him come to greet his gran. Then we
shall be the happiest people in the world.”
The village on the verge of the Equator and near Lake Victoria is where Barack Obama,
Sr. is buried — an economist who left and then came back, whom his son
would barely know, married and divorced several times. He was killed in a
car crash at 46.
Obama came here in 1987 and 2006, while he was a senator. His extended family is numerous.
Full article and accompanying video available here: Kenyans Waiting
Source: Euronews
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