The pub Obama Snr had his last drink

The stale smell of last night's beer hangs in Kaloleni Public Bar; a down-at-heel tin-roofed tavern sandwiched between butchery and a panel beater in Nairobi's Eastlands. In its heyday the insalubrious boozer was a favourite of Kenya's founding bureaucrats and politicians among them President Barack Obama's father, Barack Obama Senior. It was here that he had his last drink, whisky, on November 24, 1982. Later in the night, he would leave in his white pickup truck and as fate would have it, crash into a tree and die, aged 46.

The proprietor, George Anyim, 44, a barrel of a man with a cannonball head and a greying goatee beard, is the third generation of Anyim to run the pub having inherited it, and its stories, in 2003.