The Obamas : The Untold Story of an African Family - THE EVENING was drawing in, dark clouds rolled overhead, and ominous specks of rain were making themselves felt in the hot, sticky, tropical twilight. It was not the ideal start to the evening; ,ve hundred relatives and friends had gathered in the Obama ancestral home to watch the inauguration of their most famous son as president of the United States. We were all sitting in the courtyard of the family compound in K’obama, a remote village in western Kenya, and the heavens looked as if they were about to open. Some of the people had walked several miles to get here, and many of them were related to the president-elect either through birth or by marriage. We had less than two hours to go before Barack Obama took his historic oath of o1ce, but the inclement weather and encroaching darkness were not the worst of our problems. We still had no television, the only generator to be found had no fuel or oil, and there was no aerial set up to receive the broadcast.
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