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...were students at Harvard. Tall and slim like the President, Ndesandjo had avoided any association with the Obama name. For most of his life, he used only his stepfather's Tanzanian surname, Ndesandjo, but he has now added Okoth, a word from the language of his father's Kenyan tribe, the Luo, as well as his original surname, Obama. (See Barack Obama's family tree...
...Kenyan American in China, Ndesandjo is part of a growing community of Africans who have migrated to cities like Guangzhou to do business. Ethnic strife in China has made headlines in recent months after 200 Han and Uighur Chinese were killed in July, in the worst ethnic violence in decades. That same month, a Nigerian man was critically injured trying to escape one of many visa checks in Guangzhou's sizable African neighborhood. Also this year, a half-African-American, half-Chinese contestant on a Chinese reality-TV show and a half-South African, half-Chinese athlete on China...
...that the administration had left open the door to a trial in Somalia if an agreement could be reached. Because Spain has no extradition treaty with Somalia, which it considers to be a failed state, the government is said to be considering turning the two men over to a Kenyan court - an option employed in the past by Britain...
...Anti-gay attitudes have been on full display in recent weeks as the Kenyan media have breathlessly reported on the civil ceremony of two Kenyan men in Britain. They were dubbed a shame to Kenya, their parents were harassed and The Nation newspaper's website has been inundated with comments, most of them condemnatory...
...Much of the gay community has largely decided to abandon the fight for gay rights for now because the hostility they face is too intense. But they hope that initiatives such as the NASCOP research will help reshape Kenyan opinions about AIDS. "As a country and as an African culture, we live in full denial of the existence of homosexuality," says James Kamau, national coordinator of the Kenya Treatment Access Movement, which aims to increase the availability of all essential medicines to Kenyans. "Because of the cultural background, we shut our eyes, our minds and everything, yet it is happening...