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(The country’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, is under indictment by the International Criminal Court at The Hague for his alleged role inciting tribal killings in Kenya’s contested 2007 election.) “We realize that he is an American president, not an African president,” Othiambo told me. Obama didn’t even visit Kenya during his weeklong Africa trip last year. Nyang’oma Kogelo hasn’t seen much in the way of material improvements-aside from a few miles of paved road leading to Obama’s step-grandmother’s house and some revenue from occasional busloads of tourists. Standing before parliament in Accra, Ghana, on one of his first trips abroad as president, Obama proclaimed “a new moment of promise,” and declared the continent to be “a fundamental part of our interconnected world.”īut in the years since, the feeling in much of Africa has been one of disconnection-both from the Obama administration and the rest of the world.
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In July 2009, locals watched enthusiastically as he laid out his grand vision for a reinvigorated relationship between the United States and Africa. senator, and received a rapturous welcome. Obama had visited his ancestral home in Kenya in 2006 as a U.S. His new book, Taking Timbuktu, will be published next year.Īt the Barack Obama Secondary School in Nyang’oma Kogelo, in the highlands of western Kenya, teacher Maurice Okech Othiambo remembered the excitement that swept the village when Obama was elected president. Joshua Hammer is a former Newsweek bureau chief and correspondent-at-large in Africa and the Middle East.