{"id":8036,"date":"2017-05-02T15:24:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T19:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=8036"},"modified":"2017-05-02T15:24:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T19:24:20","slug":"kenyan-born-saint-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/kenyan-born-saint-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"KENYAN-BORN &#8220;Saint Obama&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Kenyas-Slums-are-Crazy-for-Obama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8037\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Kenyas-Slums-are-Crazy-for-Obama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Kenyas-Slums-are-Crazy-for-Obama.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Kenyas-Slums-are-Crazy-for-Obama-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>Image credit:<\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>Kenya&#8217;s Slums are Crazy for Obama<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2><strong><em>The people of Kibera<\/em> <\/strong>(Division of Nairobi Area, Kenya)<strong> <em>say that they&#8217;re America&#8217;s 53rd state and Obama is their president.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Vice<\/strong><br \/>\nby Jamie Clifton<br \/>\n3\/12\/2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>As far back as the late 90s, the Kenyan people started to celebrate Obama&#8217;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&#8217;s Kibera slum \u2013 home to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kibera.org.uk\/Facts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">60 percent<\/a> of Nairobi&#8217;s population \u2013 where residents proclaim Obama to be the area&#8217;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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><strong>View the complete article including links and images at:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_dk\/article\/kenyas-slums-are-crazy-for-obama\">https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_dk\/article\/kenyas-slums-are-crazy-for-obama<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image credit: Kenya&#8217;s Slums are Crazy for Obama The people of Kibera (Division of Nairobi Area, Kenya) say that they&#8217;re America&#8217;s 53rd state and Obama is their president. Vice by Jamie Clifton 3\/12\/2013 Excerpt: &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; As far back as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/kenyan-born-saint-obama\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8038,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions\/8038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}