Obama family members watching first results, celebrations
(5 Nov 2008) SHOTLIST 1. Cousin of US Democratic presidential candidate, Hielda Obama, dancing and singing, UPSOUND: (Luo) "Obama is coming, clear the way." 2. Relatives watching election coverage on television 3. Television screen showing CNN announcing the first results 4. Various of villagers seated 5. Wide of Obama's relatives STORYLINE: Relatives of Barack Obama, gathered in Kogelo to watch the first polls results on TV as the US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has seized command of the race for the White House. Obama rolled up an early lead over Republican John McCain that gave him what appeared to be insurmountable momentum in his bid to become the first black American president. Obama's cousin, Hielda Obama, danced and sang with other relatives as they watched the first results on the television. Obama's father, also called Barack Hussein Obama, hailed from Kogelo, a village of dirt roads, tin-roofed huts and maize fields in western Kenya. Like many Kenyan immigrants, he came to the United States to study after winning a scholarship to the University of Hawaii. There, he met and married Obama's mother, whose family was from Kansas. The younger Obama was born on August 4, 1961. His father left his family to study at Harvard when his son was two, returning just once eight years later. By then, Obama had already lived in Indonesia - homeland of his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, another university student his mother had met in Hawaii. Obama's father, who eventually returned to Kenya to work as a government economist, died in a car crash in 1982. He is buried in a tiled grave in a corner of Obama's grandmother's homestead in Kogelo. The Illinois senator and his wife, Michelle toured the rural areas of western Kenya during a 2006 trip. The Illinois senator has beaten John McCain in Ohio and is building a near insurmountable Electoral College advantage as he bids to become the first black president. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
