{"id":16483,"date":"2012-11-07T20:39:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T18:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/11\/obama-triumph-raises-hope-of-fresh-start-with-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-11-07T20:39:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T18:39:32","slug":"obama-triumph-raises-hope-of-fresh-start-with-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/obama-triumph-raises-hope-of-fresh-start-with-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama triumph raises hope of fresh start with Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Obama re-election fails to bring jubilation seen in 2008<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* President urged to focus on Africa education, health<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* People hope Obama may visit Africa again, babies named<br \/>\nafter him<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Njuwa Maina and Ben Makori<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>KOGELO, Kenya, Nov 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Kenyans in Barack Obama&#8217;s<br \/>\nancestral homeland stayed up all night and danced with joy on<br \/>\nWednesday as America&#8217;s first black president won a second term<br \/>\nin the White House, raising the prospects of a fresh start for<br \/>\nhis ties with Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Many Africans feel Obama has not responded to their huge<br \/>\nenthusiasm when he won the presidency four years ago with an<br \/>\nincreased U.S. commitment to the world&#8217;s poorest continent<br \/>\nduring his first term.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>His re-election failed to rouse the same level of jubilation<br \/>\nthat was seen across Kenya following his 2008 election victory.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But as news of Obama&#8217;s victory came through, hundreds of<br \/>\npeople gathered in his late father&#8217;s village, and cheers and<br \/>\nchants of &#8220;Obama, Obama, Obama!&#8221; erupted when key U.S. states<br \/>\nfell to the east African country&#8217;s favourite adopted son.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the tiny western hamlet of Kogelo, men waved tree<br \/>\nbranches and banged drums at the Obama family home where his<br \/>\ngrandmother Sarah lives. Women ululated and cried tears of joy,<br \/>\nmuttering prayers of thanksgiving.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Obama re-election fails to bring jubilation seen in 2008 * President urged to focus on Africa education, health * People hope Obama may visit Africa again, babies named after him By Njuwa Maina and Ben Makori KOGELO, Kenya, Nov 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Kenyans in Barack Obama&#8217;s ancestral homeland stayed up all night and danced [&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-16483","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\/16483","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=16483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}