article_snippet: Obama will make Obama first trip as president to Kenya, the country of Obama father's birth.
article_snippet: Then a senator, Obama is pictured here in Kenya in 2006 with Maasai 'mamas.'
article_snippet: Obama is pictured here during a 1988 trip at Obama family home in the Kenyan homestead of Alego.
article_snippet: From L to R are Obama, Grandmother Sarah,  Auma Obama
article_snippet: (Barack's half sister) and Kezia Obama (Barack's stepmother)
article_snippet: Obama is greated by an enthusistic crowd in Nairobi.
article_snippet: Obama came to Kenya from Kenya for school, where he met Obama's mother Ann Dunham.
article_snippet: Obama died more than 30 years ago, though Obama has other family still living in Kenya.
article_snippet: The president's father, also named Obama, is a Kenyan native.
article_snippet: According to the younger Obama's memoir Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama Sr. met Barack Obama Sr mother Ann Dunham while attending college in Hawaii.
article_snippet: Just as President Kennedy’s historic visit to Ireland in 1963 celebrated the connections between Irish-Americans and their forefathers, President Obama’s trip will honor the strong historical ties between the United States and Kenya – and all of Africa – from the millions of Americans who trace their ancestry to the African continent, to the more than 100,000 Americans that live in or visit Kenya each year,' it said in a blog post.
highlights_snippet: Obama died more than 30 years ago, though President has other family still living in Kenya .