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Jul 2015
29m 57s

Obama's Kenyan Homecoming

Global Dispatches
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President Obama is visiting Kenya this week. This is his first trip to his father's country of birth since becoming president, and people in Kenya are certainly treating it like a homecoming. 

Here with me to discuss the symbolic and political relevance of this historic trip is Wycliffe Muga, the Weekend Editor of the Star Newspaper in Kenya. 
 
Wycliffe and I have a rather lively conversation about what this trip means to ordinary Kenyans, what impact it might have on the Presidency of Uhuru Kenyatta (who recently had war crimes charges against him dropped by the International Criminal Court) and why Obama may disappoint some distant relatives from his father's family village. 
 
This is both a great curtain raiser to his trip. Muga it does a very good job of putting Obama's visit to Kenya in its proper context. 
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