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Article: Barack Obama's family in Kenya watches New Hampshire vote, expresses pride
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- January 8, 2008
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Barack Obama's relatives in western Kenya are paying close attention to how he is doing in the New Hampshire primary _ and to what he is doing to help his father's homeland recover from a deadly political crisis.
Kogelo, the home village of Barack Obama's father, has been spared the political and ethnic violence that has erupted elsewhere in this country following a disputed Dec. 27 presidential election. But it was just 90 minutes' drive from a town where torched, ransacked and looted buildings bear testimony to the clashes.
While the dispute is political, violence has pitted other tribes _ such as the Obamas' Luo _ against President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu, long dominant in ...