Siaya, Kenya: US President Barrack Obama’s grandmother has donated 10 acres of land for the construction of Kogelo Cultural Centre in Siaya County. In her quest to preserve the Luo tradition for the ...

Nairobi — Emotions ran high as elders from the Alego Kogelo clan in Karachuonyo received Mama Sara Obama, grandmother of US President Barack Obama, when she returned to the area at the weekend. Amidst ...

Malik Obama, the half brother to U.S. President Barack Obama. Malik has been widely quoted on international media as endorsing the election of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in the ...

Villagers line up to cast a mock ballot next to a poster of Barack Obama in Kogelo, the town in Kenya where Obama's ancestors are fromThomas Mukoya / Reuters Blood flowed as election day dawned in ...

KOGELO, Kenya — Things are no less divisive in the Obama precincts here as they are across the Atlantic as Election Day looms. President Obama’s relatives and others in his ancestral village are angry ...

The celebration of 2008 “was exceptional, it is something not any of us would have imagined to have happened because we were at the brink of history being made,” said village resident Malik Obama, ...

Barack Obama Okoth was tugging at his Mickey Mouse sweatshirt, trying to remember everything he could about the man he was named after. “He lives in America, and he’s a king,” the seven-year-old said ...

In western Kenya, two villages claim ties to Barack Obama, but only one of them has gotten the limelight and the benefits that have come with Obama's election. The other village, Kobama, says it's the ...