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 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Barack Obama may have only landed Thursday for his latest visit to his father's homeland, but the U.S. senator has already become the country's most prominent "citizen."
People drinking a Kenyan beer called Senator are ordering "Obama" instead. Obama's photograph is popping up on T-shirts, and the once knee-high grass in his ancestral village was cut in advance of his arrival.
As the only African-American in the U.S. Senate, Obama is seen as an inspiration in this east African country where more than half its 33 million people eke out a living on less than $1 a day.
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