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Kenya elated over Obama´s historic victory
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Source: CCTV.com | 11-06-2008 13:54
Special Report: U.S.Presidential Election 2008Over in Kenya president Mwai Kibaki has declared a public holiday to honor the victory of Barack Obama in the US presidential election.
The East African country is the birth place of Obama's late father.
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| Kisumu residents wave a US flag as they take to the streets as they celebrate after the announcement of the victory of US presidential candidate Barack Obama in the US presidential election. Barack Obama's friends and relatives erupted into song and dance in the Kenyan family homestead of Kogelo Wednesday, urging the nation's new hero to change the world and remember Kenya in the process.(AFP/Simon Maina) |
On Wednesday, Obama's Kenyan relatives, along with other Kenyans stayed up all night or woke before dawn to cheer the historic triumph of Obama.
In recognition of the fame of Obama's family, a new road is being built to the house of his Kenyan relatives.
Editor:Zhang Pengfei
