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How Obama's grandfather got name, link with South Nyanza

Former American President Barack Obama. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

It was May 1938 and war drums of World War II had started beating across the world.

Just like a few years earlier in 1915 during the build-up of the First World War, the British colonial government shifted its attention to Kenya to get soldiers to join its combat unit.

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