Seize chance presented by Obama visit to market Brand Kenya

President Barack Obama visits Kenya next month to attend the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES). The visit is significant in two aspects; he is the first sitting US President to visit Kenya. Secondly, he traces his ancestry to a village in Kenya. In 1987, Barack Obama, then a young man, sought to trace his roots and found them in Kogelo, Siaya County. He visited again in 2006 when he was a senator.

It is a source of great pride that the first Black President of America traces his roots to Kenya and naturally, many people thought that would perhaps make him visit Kenya often or, at least during his first term in office. That did not happen. President Obama hosted the Africa Leaders Summit in Washington last year in which he outlined the US government's plan for the world's poorest continent. In attendance was President Uhuru Kenyatta.