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\nBarack Obama, A Prophesied Son of Kenya?<\/p>\n
\nBarack Obama, A Prophesied Son of Kenya?<\/p>\n
COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n The following news item was of interest:<\/p>\n CNN<\/strong> – June 4, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n Kenyans have long watched the U.S. presidential election with special interest and, in many cases, a special sense of pride.<\/span><\/p>\n Barak Obama is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas.<\/span><\/p>\n “I’m excited … because he’s a Kenyan. He’s a half Kenyan,” a smiling woman said in a Nairobi neighborhood…<\/span><\/p>\n Obama is popular across many parts of the country, especially in western Kenya where many of his relatives live.<\/span><\/p>\n “I want a black man to rule America so that you can see the changes that Obama<\/span><\/strong><\/span> promised the people … to see the change,” one young man said.<\/span><\/p>\n “Obama is a (good) man,” said an older man with gray hair, carrying twisted wrought iron on his shoulder. “He’s fit to lead the country.”<\/span><\/p>\n In summer 2006 thousands of Kenyans lined the streets of Kisumu, giving Obama a hero’s welcome on his visit to his father’s home. Obama’s father died in a car accident in Nairobi in 1982. http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/06\/04\/obama.kenya\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Of course, there is a Kenyan prophecy about a “son of Kenya” leading to the downfall of the United States.<\/p>\n\n <\/span><\/h2>\n
Africans celebrate victory of ‘half-Kenyan’ Obama<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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