This week Kenya plays host to the most significant "foreign" visitor to ever grace the country's shores. President Barack Obama is in the country of his father's birth. The short tour to the land that provided the backdrop of his seminal book, Dreams From My Father, shall be his first as US president -- and potentially his last as leader of the free world.
Upon his historic election in 2008, many expected Obama to extend his celebrations of that momentous victory into Kenya by favouring the country with his first foreign visit, or at least his first sojourn on the continent.
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