| The world reacts to arrival of new US president
"I'm tingling like I'm in a sauna," said Samson Wakoli, a 26-year-old bank worker, as he watched Obama's speech with thousands of other Kenyans tonight on a giant screen near the shores of Lake Victoria. "This gives me strength. We have waited so long. God is good, God is good, God is good." As Bob Marley's One Love began to play, Ruth Odaga said she had been "touched in a very special way". "Last January we were fighting here" – the town of Kisumu was badly hit in Kenya's post-election violence – "and now look at the happiness Obama has given everyone," she said. Celebrations were already in full swing across the country that includes "the small village where my father was born" that Obama referred to in his speech. In nearby Kogelo, where Obama Sr grew up, the party was at Barack Obama primary school, where classrooms had become makeshift hotels with names like Something Cold and Connie of Siaya.
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