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Obama's Kenyan grandmother says will attend inauguration
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-11-06 23:13 NAIROBI -- US President-elect Barack Obama's 86-year-old grandmother, Sarah Obama, said she will attend her grandson's presidential inauguration ceremony in Washington early next year.
She is also already planning what to serve the Illinois Senator when he makes his first visit to the village as the leader of the United States. "We are so happy and Kenya is also celebrating, we are going to feat. This is absolute joy," Sarah said, according to the Daily Nation newspaper on Thursday. "I am so happy that I don't know if I will die of happiness at the airport," when Obama arrives, Sarah Obama told reporters at her homestead. "It will not only change our lives but the whole of Kenya." Africa has been rooting for Obama from the very moment he announced he was running for presidency. The election victory of the son of a Kenyan father was being celebrated and savored all over the continent. The villagers of Kogelo, who are neighbors of the Obama family, had offered 10 bulls for a feast on Wednesday, and more offers were coming. Food is the greatest gift in what is some of the most fertile farmland in all of Kenya, where mangos, bananas, corn and tomatoes grow among red-budded flame trees. Sarah is one of the wives of Obama's grandfather, instead of the natural mother of Obama's father. But Obama treats her just like his natural grandmother. Sarah is "very happy about what has happened, and she's happy not just for herself but for the whole world," said Obama's Kenyan half-sister, Auma, who served as interpreter and the family's spokesperson. |
