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Why Obama is captivated by Kenyan heritage

Barack Obama in his younger days with family

 

During one of his early visits, Barack Obama found himself huddled amid 15 or so people, in a congested sitting room in Nairobi’s Kariokor Estate, “all of them smiling and waving like a crowd at a parade”.

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