Obama's historic Kenya visit: a land of promise, in a moment of peril - Crikey (registration)
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta escorts US President Barack Obama to Air Force One. CNN is on the nose with Kenyans at the moment. First, while covering the Garissa University massacre earlier this year, the network reported from “Nairobi, Nigeria” and showed a map of the region with Uganda labelled “Tanzania”. Then, in the lead-up to Barack Obama’s landmark visit to Nairobi last weekend, the station broadcast a report that claimed he was “heading to a terror hotbed” on par with Syria or Afghanistan. Overzealous travel advisories from twitchy governments haven’t helped, and the mzungus (or “white people”) are only starting to warily trickle back now. The Kenyans’ point — a long-held frustration — is that Africa is more than Ebola, bombs and dictators in the same way America is more than obesity, gun nuts and Donald Trump. They’ve also got Fashion Week and music awards and charity fundraisers and celebrity gossip, and they hoped that Obama’s three days in Nairobi might help show that side of life. Source: www.crikey.com.au
