President Barack Obama seemed to be enjoying himself Friday while reuniting with Kenyan relatives in Nairobi.
Relatives he has had little time for until now.
Sitting next to his half-sister, Auma Obama, and step-grandmother, Mama Sarah Obama, the president was all smiles at a state dinner at the Villa Rosa Kempinski hotel.
President Obama attends dinner with family members during Kenya visit http://t.co/b7pNymuFtU pic.twitter.com/Lliiw6dGLj
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 24, 2015
“It was a wonderful time,” Obama said, according to NBC News. “Mostly we were just catching up.”
The president suggested he’d be back when out of office, saying he looks forward to having “more freedom to reconnect.”
While there, Obama pushed gay rights, saying at a news conference that the idea that people “are going to be treated differently or abused because of who they love is wrong.”
Homosexuality is illegal in his father’s homeland, and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta fully rejected Obama’s appeal, calling gay rights a “non-issue … not really an issue on the foremost mind of Kenyans.”
As expected, the trip was all the rage on social media. Here’s a sampling of reports and images from Twitter welcoming the “chief lecturer” home:
Dang. Looks like Kenya is full of ‘birthers’. #Obama http://t.co/l0Zt50RY5f pic.twitter.com/LJHqUEggFH
— KayBDay (@DayontheDay) July 24, 2015
Crowds greet Obama as he returns to Kenya and reunites with father’s family http://t.co/vJ8USYFOxE pic.twitter.com/hYZz7gJAM2
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 25, 2015
Dang. Looks like Kenya is full of ‘birthers’. #Obama http://t.co/l0Zt50RY5f pic.twitter.com/LJHqUEggFH
— KayBDay (@DayontheDay) July 24, 2015
Barack Obama is in Kenya this week. Why wasn’t he there on his last African trip? http://t.co/fTNsQrvLYw #econarchive pic.twitter.com/USvDkgcTMu
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) July 23, 2015
Pres. Obama reunites with family in Kenya as first sitting US president to visit the country: http://t.co/6MsmqiUBV9 pic.twitter.com/IAdemN1XbN
— ABC News (@ABC) July 25, 2015
Pres Obama arriving in Kenya last night. Repost after original photo apparently inadvertently cropped on Twitter pic.twitter.com/04VqtvGml9
— petesouza (@petesouza) July 25, 2015
Obama says Africa ‘on the move’ at business summit in Kenya http://t.co/dETJgUTSyo pic.twitter.com/Lzhe0UDcB2
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 25, 2015
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