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How much it costs to host the world's most powerful man

When he first travelled to Kenya in 1986, he did so unnoticed, like any other ordinary American tourist. Twenty years later, as Senator of the State of Illinois, Barack Obama returned to a more respectable reception by the Mwai Kibaki Administration.

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