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Kenya’s Slums are Crazy for Obama

The people of Kibera (Division of Nairobi Area, Kenya) say that they’re America’s 53rd state and Obama is their president.

Vice
by Jamie Clifton
3/12/2013

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As far back as the late 90s, the Kenyan people started to celebrate Obama’s political career (naming buildings after him, sticking his picture up everywhere) after he became a member of the Illinois Senate. He was then elected to the position of State Senator and, eventually, President. Reclaiming Obama as one of their own, the people of Kenya went batshit over the election results, nowhere more so than in Nairobi’s Kibera slum – home to 60 percent of Nairobi’s population – where residents proclaim Obama to be the area’s president, name their children after him, cover their buildings and vehicles in pictures of his face and cover their bodies in any amount of the presidential merchandise available.

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