Obama tourism.

• Position: AFRICA - President Barack Obama - Brief article

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Barack Obama's journey to the White House has fascinated the people of Kenya, where the President's father was born. (In fact, while much of the world focused on the election of a black man as America's President, many Kenyans said that as a member of the minority Luo tribe, Obama wouldn't stand a chance of being elected President of Kenya.) Now, Kenyans are hoping that "Obama mania" will, bring visitors to the President's ancestral homeland. Kenya's own presidential election in 2007 was accompanied by wide-spread tribal, violence and killings, which brought tourism to a halt. But the Kenyan government predicts that Kogelo--the village where 0bama's father lived and where his...