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In western Kenya, two villages claim ties to Barack Obama, but only one of them has gotten the limelight and the benefits that have come with Obama's election. The other village, Kobama, says it's the ...

In an auditorium, a troupe of dancers moves with admirable agility to the percussion and singing engulfed the room. Their vigor is fanned by rousing applause from their audience. These are the ...

Kenya on Tuesday kicked off an ambitious Digital Villages project designed to connect the whole country, from rural to urban areas, and accelerate growth of information communication technology (ICT).

LANET UMOJA, Kenya (AP) — When the chief of this western Kenyan village received an urgent 4 a.m. call that thieves were invading a school teacher’s home, he sent a message on Twitter. Within minutes ...

Most travelers to Kenya are taken with its wild side, massive elephants lumbering past baobab trees and lions stalking through the grass. Orinda teens Alex and Megan Isaacs and Lauren Van Rheenen were ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this article misstated Kogelo's location from Nairobi. KOGELO, Kenya — Barack Obama’s ancestral village here laments his exit from the White House — ...