Kenya: Prayers Offered for Obama in Kogelo

4 November 2008
allAfrica.com
blog By Katy Gabel

Kogelo — AllAfrica's Katy Gabel blogs from the home of Senator Barack Obama's family in Kogelo, western Kenya.

3.30 pm East Africa Time (8 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time, U.S.): A prayer service for Barack Obama is now underway in Kogelo. Prayers have been offered for Obama's maternal grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, who died of cancer on Monday.

Dunham is often referred to here as "our grandmother" and at a press briefing from the Obama homestead, Malik Abango, Obama's half-brother, described her as "close" family.

Washington Ogonyo Ngede, bishop of the Power of Jesus Around the World church, claims Obama's success so far is a direct result of his prayers during Obama's 2006 visit to Kenya.

According to organizers, the service could "go on all night."

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