{"id":5432,"date":"2015-07-25T11:35:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T10:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2015-07-25T11:35:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T10:35:25","slug":"obama-dines-with-extended-family-in-nairobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/obama-dines-with-extended-family-in-nairobi\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama dines with extended family in Nairobi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BarakObama\"<\/a>U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s gathered with members of his extended family in Nairobi Friday, kicking off a two day visit to his father\u2019s native Kenya.
\nObama\u2019s familial connections to the East African nation were on display as soon as Air force One touched down in Nairobi, with the president\u2019s sister Auma Obama among those assembled to greet him.
\nThe pair shared a warm embrace, before heading to a hotel where America\u2019s first black president met more members of his extended family for dinner.
\nAmong those gathered were his step-grandmother, Mama Sarah, whom he calls \u201cGranny\u201d.
\nObama is linked to his Kenyan family via his father Barack senior, a pipe-smoking economist who Obama has admitted he \u201cnever truly\u201d knew.
\nHe walked out when Obama was just two and died in a car crash in Nairobi in 1982, aged 46.
\nObama senior had worked in the government of Jomo Kenyatta, who led Kenya at independence from Britain until his death 14 years later in 1978.
\nThe two men did not get on well, with Kenyatta — the father of Kenya\u2019s current president Uhuru Kenyatta — sacking Obama senior, and blackballing him for further government jobs, an ostracisation that would help fuel alcoholism.
\nObama is not expected to visit the small town in Western Kenya where his father was born and is buried.
\nThis is Obama\u2019s first trip to Kenya since becoming president.<\/p>\n

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