Wednesday 22 July 2015

Photos: How Kenyans are preparing for Obama’s ‘home-coming’

A mural by artists Bankslave and Swift at the Go Down Art Centre in Nairobi on July 15, 2015 (Photo credit: AFP/Till Muellenmeister)   See more photos after the cut.....



A worker prepares to plant trees and bushes on a kerb along a street in Nairobi on July 9, 2015 (Photo credit: AFP/Tony Karumba)





Workers repave a kerb along a street in Nairobi on July 9, 2015 ((Photo credit: AFP/Tony Karumba)



A man reads next to newspapers bearing headlines on US President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to Kenya on July 17, 2015 in Nairobi (Photo credit: AFP/Simon Maina)



Kenyan clothing vendor Hosea Owuor, pictured on July 8, 2015, said that, "The story of Obama is when he was young he was born in Siaya" -- half a world away from Hawaii, where Obama was actually born (Photo credit: AFP/Denish Ochiengi)



Kenyan artist Dayan Masinde displays a picture in Nairobi on June 26, 2015 depicting Barak Obama (left) with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta (Photo credit: AFP /Tony Karumba)



Sarah Obama, the president's 94-year-old step-grandmother, is the matriarch of the family. She is "Mama Sarah" to Kenyans, and "granny" to Obama (Photo credit: AFP/Simon Maina)

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