{"id":16091,"date":"2012-11-02T08:25:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T06:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/11\/analysis-jilted-africa-cool-to-us-vote-after-obama-fever-fades\/"},"modified":"2012-11-02T08:25:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T06:25:35","slug":"analysis-jilted-africa-cool-to-us-vote-after-obama-fever-fades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/analysis-jilted-africa-cool-to-us-vote-after-obama-fever-fades\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS-Jilted Africa cool to US vote after Obama fever fades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Disappointment followed fervour over &#8220;Africa&#8217;s son&#8221;<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* United States risks eclipse by China in Africa<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* In U.S. debates, sub-Saharan Africa was barely a blip<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* But it is battleground in U.S. war against al Qaeda<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Njuwa Maina and Tosin Sulaiman<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>KOGELO, Kenya\/JOHANNESBURG, Nov 2 (Reuters) &#8211; In the tiny<br \/>\nKenyan village of Kogelo, U.S. President Barack Obama&#8217;s<br \/>\nancestral homeland, some people talk of hurt feelings of the<br \/>\nkind experienced when a favourite relative has failed to get in<br \/>\ntouch.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, Kogelo, and Africa in general, celebrated<br \/>\nwith noisy gusto when Obama, whose father came from the<br \/>\nscattered hamlet of tin-roofed homes, became the first<br \/>\nAfrican-American to be elected president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Disappointment followed fervour over &#8220;Africa&#8217;s son&#8221; * United States risks eclipse by China in Africa * In U.S. debates, sub-Saharan Africa was barely a blip * But it is battleground in U.S. war against al Qaeda By Njuwa Maina and Tosin Sulaiman KOGELO, Kenya\/JOHANNESBURG, Nov 2 (Reuters) &#8211; In the tiny Kenyan village of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-16091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}