Kenya: Obama Snr Went to U.S. on Scholarship But His Son Now Aims for White House By Elly Wamari, 5 June 2008
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One day in September 1959, a chartered Bristol Britannia aircraft touched down in New York, USA, having made a special trip from Nairobi, Kenya.
The flight was special in two ways. It was the first "airlift" of young Kenyans to the US on a scholarship arrangement initiated by charismatic politician Thomas Joseph Mboya, and supported by African-American Students Foundation in the US.
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