Simple hotel room where Barack Obama slept

Room 104 at the Lotus Hotel where Barrack Hussein Obama spent four nights when he visited Kenya 28 years ago. [Photo: Onyango Omondi/Standard]

Mombasa, Kenya: Save for a few superficial changes like the a 14-inch LCD TV set hanging on the wall, the interior of room 104, remains largely the same since Barack Obama slept in it 28 years ago.

Those who have read Obama’s Dreams from My Father recall a section in the book on his tour of Mombasa that year when then law student visited the Kenyan coast in search of his Kenyan roots.