Photos: President Obama’s visits to Kenya
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) talks to the press while standing with his sister, Auma Obama, and his step grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, outside her house in his family’s village of Kogelo, Kenya on Aug. 26, 2006. (Pete Souza / Chicago Tribune)
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)Kenyans wait for the arrival of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) outside a hospital in Kisumu, Kenya on Aug. 26, 2006. (Pete Souza / Chicago Tribune)
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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)Sen. Barack Obama bows his head in prayer at an event in Siaya, Kenya on Aug. 26, 2006. (Pete Souza / Chicago Tribune)
Michelle Obama is escorted to her vehicle in Kibera, the largest slum in Africa, within the city of Nairobi, Kenya on Aug. 27, 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.
(JOHN MUCHUCHA / AFP/Getty Images)