Kenya: Obama’s visit
The excitement and frenzy in Kenya surrounding the US President’s visit in July to his family’s homeland was tremendous.
Kip Chelashaw
Unsurprisingly, for the Western press, the item that got most coverage was Obama’s championing of gay rights. Prior to the visit, Kenya’s Deputy President, William Ruto, said: ‘Homosexuality is against the plan of God. God did not create man and woman so that men would marry men and women would marry women.’
