U.S. Senator Barack Obama’s Kenyan grandmother said her grandson is “full of surprises” and will come back from defeat in New Hampshire’s primary to become the first black U.S. president.
In Obama’s ancestral village of Kogelo on western Kenya, 85-year-old Sara Hussein on Wednesday expressed the general feelings among locals intently focused on the U.S. presidential race amid the violent election turmoil in their own country.
“If we get one of our own to lead the world’s most powerful nation then we will get a lot of foreign aid and attention,” Dan Chemotei told Reuters in Central Nairobi where he works as a guard.
Born in Hawaii to a White American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama is revered by many Kenyans the way the Irish idolised U.S. president John F. Kennedyin the 1060s — as one of their own who succeeded beyond their widest dreams.
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