"The highlight of his term was killing Osama bin Laden, which is something other presidents have not been successful in doing," he says.Īl Qaeda and its fanatical Somali affiliate, Al-Shabaab, which has been carrying out a campaign of terror in Nairobi and on one occasion lobbed a grenade into a Sunday school, is solidly hated. Tweets from Mwanzia, 25, sells charcoal, used by thousands of poor household for fuel. In Kibera, Obama's story resonates strongly maybe because when you are scrapping the bottom of the barrel, the only thing keeping you going is a dream: the slum is home to amazing innovation and creativity in film, comedy, music and - believe it not - IT. Postcard: Obama finds support among Chavistas Every morning crowds of workers stream through Lavington for their 15-kilometer walk to the city's industrial zone.
The ring of slums to the south co-exist cheek-to-jowl with Lavington, one of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods. They have given rise to a peculiar activity, slum tourism, where wealthy people journey from all over the world to come and see squalor. Here, the people are less guarded, more passionate about politics. Kibera, Kenya's biggest slum, is Obamaland. It is a city that likes to keep in touch with its wild side. Once in a while, when the big cats wander into the villages and kill their cattle, Maasai warriors take out their spears and hunt them down. From a rooftop bar on Mombasa Road, the main highway to the airport and on to the coast, you can sometimes see in the distance herds of buffalo, giraffe and the odd lion. The Kenyan capital is a land of dramatic contrasts. Postcard: Nigerians enjoy election soap opera
War is very expensive and with the Iraq and Afghan war, he has done a great job in managing this and even eliminating Osama ," said Onyango at the Railways Golf Club, whose course is part of a longer green belt that girdles Nairobi's fat midriff from south to north. Simeon Onyango, is in the pharmaceuticals business and a widely travelled man. From the clubs to the teeming barrios for which Nairobi is notorious, President Obama is spoken of with enthusiasm and pride.ĭr. Obama are fading, but his son is a popular man in Kenya. The club scene was certainly the natural ecosystem for the pipe-smoking Harvard-educated economist, and the hordes of other young Africans just returned from the world's top universities to take over their newly independent country. Perhaps he played up the road at the Royal Nairobi Golf Club, the oldest of the city's six golf establishments, someone suggests. president, ever played here when he was a high-flying civil servant in the 1960s. Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) - No one at the Railway Golf Club in the heart of Nairobi quite remembers if Barack Obama, Sr., the father of the 44th U.S. Many Kenyans believe the killing of Osama bin Laden is Obama's top achievementĮditor's note: Mutuma Mathiu is the Managing Editor of the Daily Nation, Kenya's largest newspaper.Obama fervor has faded since 2008, but he remains source of pride for Kenyans.President Obama's father, Barack Sr., was born in Kenya.
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