Kenya

DENVER--“America has come very far,” Charity Ngilu said.

Sitting in a Denver cafe, sipping a cup of English tea, Ngilu—Kenya’s minister for water and irrigation, and the highest-ranking member of a small delegation of leaders from her nation who are attending the Democratic convention—was reflecting on the unlikely rise of Barack Obama. Four years ago, the obscure Illinois legislator introduced himself to delegates at the Boston convention—and, by electrifying extension, the entire world—as a “skinny kid with a funny name.” That name, of course, is Kenyan, and back in the country where it originated, they’re feeling vicariously triumphant that it is now known around the globe.  read more »

Here's a recent CNN report about the surging popularity of Senator beer in Kenya, which has of late become known as Obama beer. As in, says one man: "Give me three Obamas...that is three glasses of Obama."
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