Word: kisumu
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...first time Barack Obama came home to his father's village of Kogelo in western Kenya, it was as a 26-year-old backpacker exploring his family roots. In 1987, he and half-sister Auma rode a dilapidated old bus from Kisumu, the provincial capital, 60 miles away. As they lurched along dirt roads, a couple of chickens nestled in Obama's lap and mothers passed wet babies back and forth to the two young visitors. Obama spent his time in Kogelo, a small rural village where people grow maize and raise cows, getting to know his grandmother Sarah Hussein...
Luke’s survey of 1,052 males, ages 21 to 45, in Kisumu, Kenya, focused only on extra-marital relationships...
Take Kenya’s Kisumu province, which suffers from the highest rate of HIV infections in the country. When Marie Stopes Kenya—an NGO which serves as Kenya’s leading family planning services provider—had its funding slashed after the re-implementation of the Global Gag Rule, it was forced to close its Kisumu clinic, which provided not only family planning but HIV prevention services for hundreds of women in the region. In addition, the organization was forced to close a clinic in Kenya’s Mathare Valley which had offered Malaria...