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Africans celebrate victory of 'half-Kenyan' Obama

Source: CNN

Nairobi : Kenya | about 1 year ago

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Kenyans have long watched the U.S. presidential election with special interest and, in many cases, a special sense of pride. Barack Obama speaks to residents of Africa's largest slum, Kibera, Kenya, in August 2006. Barak Obama is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas....

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