Kenya: Waiting for Returns in Kisumu

4 November 2008
allAfrica.com
blog By Katy Gabel

AllAfrica's Katy Gabel captures the anticipation in Kisumu, just hours before the polls will start to close in the United States.

12 am East Africa Time: It's still early, but Kisumu residents are setting up for a late night of waiting for returns from the United States.

A large screen has been installed in the city's largest public park, and MSNBC is available at a number of the city's bars and restaurants. I'm watching muted footage from an American television station with a medley of locally-produced songs praising Obama playing in the background. "Tomorrow will be somewhat chaotic," one bar patron tells me.

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