Dr Auma Obama made history Friday by becoming the first Kenyan to ride in The Beast when she comfortably entered the car together with her brother, US President Barack Obama.
Well, some may argue that President Obama himself is a Kenyan –American: that's fine, but Auma is a full Kenyan.
In his Award – winning book and New York Bestseller, Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama talks very passionately about his sister – the one who gave him a ride in her Volkswagen Beetle to Alego K'Ogelo when he came here looking for his roots
In a speech delivered at Safaricom Indoor Arena at Kasarani, Kenya on sunday, Auma Obama introduced President Obama with touching words. “My brother, your brother, our son” she said. Her speech assuring Kenyans that her brother Obama was not lost from his roots.
Auma pointed out that she was worried when Obama told her that he was running for President of US back in 2008. Obama however assured her that he had read the job description and was ready to take up the job.
Acknowledging the humility that Obama displayed when he visited Kenya in 1992, she remembers picking him up at JKIA with her small Beetle vehicle.
“Together with him, we ate githeri, omena, chapati, sukuma wiki," she listed the African dishes that they ate then mentioning that Obama even slept on mat in their home”
“That’s why he owed me a ride. I picked him up in my beetle when he visited, and two decades later he paid back, gave me a ride in the Beast, but do I say” she told the cheering crowd.
Her speech encouraging Kenyans that no matter how difficult the circumstances are, it’s possible to pick up.
She used the opportunity to thank Americans for trusting her brother to be the President of United States of America.
She thanked Obama for bringing Global Entrepreneurship Summit(GES) to Kenya, because it showed “That Africa was the place of infinite possibilities.”
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