Letter from Nairobi: Obamamania grips Kenya ahead of inauguration.

19 Jan, 2009

A tourist visiting Nairobi and Kisumu for the first time might be forgiven for thinking that Barack Obama was the president of Kenya, judging by the popularity of his T-shirts, posters and the extensive media coverage since his election as the 44th president of the United States last November.

I drove to the lakeside city of Kisumu from Nairobi over the weekend and the talk everywhere was about the

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