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Obama invalidates critics’ expectations by visiting father's land

When Barack Obama visited Kenya for the first time nearly 30 years ago, he was astonished that an airport worker recognised his last name.

It was a striking experience for a young man — and future American President — struggling to understand how a country he had never seen and a Kenyan family he barely knew had shaped his identity.

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