Photos: President Obama’s visits to Kenya
President Obama makes his first visit to his ancestral homeland of Kenya as president. He previously had traveled there as a private individual and as a U.S. senator.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) jokingly poses for his family wearing a new belt that he bought while on safari at Masai Mara, Kenya, on Aug. 30, 2006.
(Pete Souza / Chicago Tribune)U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) talks with a group of orphans whose parents have died from AIDS at a CARE project that he partially funded in Siaya, Kenya, on Aug. 26, 2006.
(Pete Souza / Chicago Tribune)U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) walks onto a makeshift stage to address large crowd outside a school named after him in his family’s village of Kogelo, Kenya, on Aug. 26, 2006.
(Pete Souza / Chicago Tribune)Kenyans pass artwork depicting President Obama, left, and his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta on July 23, 2015, at the Pre-Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, on the eve of Obama’s visit to Kenya.
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