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Kenya's 'national hero'  By Adam Mynott BBC News, Nairobi
Kenyans give their views on the man who may be the next US
president  Eighteen months ago, few Kenyans had even heard of
Barack Obama.  He was a little known US senator from Illinois.
Those who were aware of his existence lived in western Kenya
near to the village of Alego-Kogello, 60km (37 miles) from the
town of Kisumu where the Kenyan side of his family live.  Now
his meteoric rise to political fame has propelled the name
Barack Obama onto the lips of millions of Kenyans.  He has
Kenyan blood coursing through his veins and has been adopted as
a Kenyan national hero, who just might become the most powerful
man in the world.  Barack Obama has never lived in Kenya and he
has visited the country just three times.  The Kenyan blood
comes from his father, Barack Obama senior, who was born in the
remote village of Alego where he herded goats as a child.
Interview by appointment  He set off