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Barack Obama Sr was born in Kenya. That鈥檚 why many Kenyans think of his son, US President Barack Obama, as one of their own. Although Obama hasn鈥檛 lived up to everybody鈥檚 expectations, journalist Michael Kaloki still remembers the excitement, bordering on hysteria, that gripped the country eight years ago when he was first elected.

(Image: A 'matatu' (mini-bus) in Nairobi, Kenya. Credit: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images)