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By Njuwa Maina and Tosin Sulaiman
KOGELO, Kenya/JOHANNESBURG, Nov 2 (Reuters) – In the tiny
Kenyan village of Kogelo, U.S. President Barack Obama’s
ancestral homeland, some people talk of hurt feelings of the
kind experienced when a favourite relative has failed to get in
touch.
Four years ago, Kogelo, and Africa in general, celebrated
with noisy gusto when Obama, whose father came from the
scattered hamlet of tin-roofed homes, became the first
African-American to be elected president of the United States.
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