{"id":4868,"date":"2014-08-19T11:25:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T15:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2014-08-19T11:30:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T15:30:04","slug":"kenyan-president-uhuru-kenyatta-was-at-the-white-house-earlier-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/kenyan-president-uhuru-kenyatta-was-at-the-white-house-earlier-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was at the White House earlier this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BeIFzwYsNRQ?rel=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was at the White House earlier this month for\u00a0a three day (August 4th, 5th and 6th) US-Africa Summit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Uhuru Kenyatta and Barack Obama have many things common such as, though not limited to, the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Both were born in Kenya. \u00a0 Barack in the Kenya Protectorate and Uhuru in the Kenya Colony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Both were born in the year 1961. \u00a0 Barack was born in August and Uhuru in October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Both studied political science at universities in the United States in the early 1980s. \u00a0 Barack\u00a0graduated from Columbia University with a political science major in<\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1983<\/span><\/strong>. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Uhuru graduated from Amherst College in<\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1985<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Both were born to well known\u00a0prominent and distinguished fathers. \u00a0 Barack Obama senior and\u00a0Jomo Kenyatta. \u00a0 As readers may know, Jomo Kenyatta was\u00a0Kenya&#8217;s first post-colonial President (1964\u20131978).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Kenya-President-Uhuru-Kenyatta-and-Barack-Obama-white-house-2014-summit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4869\" alt=\"Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta and Barack Obama white house 2014 summit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Kenya-President-Uhuru-Kenyatta-and-Barack-Obama-white-house-2014-summit-300x185.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Kenya-President-Uhuru-Kenyatta-and-Barack-Obama-white-house-2014-summit-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Kenya-President-Uhuru-Kenyatta-and-Barack-Obama-white-house-2014-summit.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It has been reported, earlier this month at the US-Africa Summit, that Barack told Uhuru that he would visit Kenya before his term ends in 2017:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Yes, President Obama had a conversation with our President and he spoke of how keen he was to visit Kenya before his term ends in 2017. No date was fixed, but, certainly, both governments have begun planning for the visit, and, sure, it will be announced at the appropriate time,&#8221;<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">said State House and Government spokesman Manoah Esipisu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michael Greenwald of the\u00a0US Embassy in Nairobi did not confirm, or deny, Obama&#8217;s proposed visit to Kenya:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;At the Summit there were various conversations among leaders, and President Obama took advantage of the opportunity to talk with a few leaders with whom he needed to discuss issues or pressing concerns. The White House sets and announces President Obama\u2019s schedule,&#8221;<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">said Greenwald.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please exercise your free speech in the comments section below. There are no stipulations of political correctness on this blog. Speak your mind, give us your thoughts, both objective and subjective. Share your ideas, hunches, inklings or your expertise. Please provide recommendation and corrections if you spot errors in fact within the blog report. Lastly, remember that posting a comment is much like casting a vote, so please do so.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was at the White House earlier this month for\u00a0a three day (August 4th, 5th and 6th) US-Africa Summit. Uhuru Kenyatta and Barack Obama have many things common such as, though not limited to, the following: Both &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/kenyan-president-uhuru-kenyatta-was-at-the-white-house-earlier-this-month\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37,5],"tags":[2654,2655,878,2656,2650,2652,2648,1696,2653,2651,4339,851,1432,1298,1299,2661,2660,2649,2657,2658,2659],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obama-birth-certificate","category-obama-news","tag-amherst-college-1985-kenyatta","tag-amherst-college-obama","tag-barack-obama-senior","tag-barack-obama-uhuru-kenyatta-born-1961","tag-jomo-kenyatta","tag-kenya-state-house-and-government-spokesman-manoah-esipisu","tag-kenyan-president-uhuru-kenyatta","tag-lucas-daniel-smith-obama-kenyan-birth-certificate","tag-manoah-esipisu-kenya","tag-michael-greenwald-us-embassy-in-nairobi","tag-obama-birth-certificate","tag-obama-born-in-kenya","tag-obama-coast-province-general-hospital","tag-obama-illegal-president","tag-obama-ineligible-president","tag-obama-kenya-visit-2016","tag-obama-kenya-visit-2017","tag-uhuru-kenyatta","tag-us-africa-summit-2014-obama-uhuru-kenyatta-kenya","tag-us-africa-summit-2014","tag-us-africa-summit-obama-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4874,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/4874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}