US Election 2008
Sep 5 2008, Baroka

I am curious. I know that Barack Obama’s father is a Luo, a tribe in Kenya which has been in the fore front of opposition in the seeming Kikuyu/Kalenjin political hegemony. I may be wrong there. I also know that Ralia Odinga – that name again –.

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