AHC: Barack Obama: President of Kenya

With a POD no earlier than the date of Obama's birth (4 August 1961), make Barack Obama the President of Kenya. Bonus points if he still goes to Harvard.
 
Why would they elect an American?

He was a Kenyan citizen at the time of birth through his father. His Kenyan citizenship expired automatically when he was 23, since he had not renounced his American citizenship by the time, and Kenya bans dual citizenship. Here, though, he will have to keep his Kenyan citizenship and give up his American one.
 
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Why would they elect an American?

The only way is for him to move to Kenya in his early childhood. Perhaps his mother dies in an accident, and his father takes custody and moves back to Kenya?

In all likelihood, he would have ended up with his grandparents in Kansas if his mother died, but it is possible for his father to return with him to Kenya. From there, there are a number of different routes you can take. It will be difficult, however, for a half-white, partially American man to win the Presidency of Kenya.

In any case, he will be radically different. His father and Kenyan family would raise him in a very different way then his globetrotting experience with his mother and grandparents.

Cheers,
Ganesha
 
I wonder why there are multiple "Make Barack Obama President of Kenya" threads and not a single "Make George W. Bush the Imperial Grand Wizard of the KKK" thread. For now, I'm going with the tentative hypothesis of "because some people are really racist."
 
I wonder why there are multiple "Make Barack Obama President of Kenya" threads and not a single "Make George W. Bush the Imperial Grand Wizard of the KKK" thread. For now, I'm going with the tentative hypothesis of "because some people are really racist."

I'm sure it has nothing at all to do with the fact that Obama had dual citizenship and everything to so with racism :rolleyes:

It's actually not that common a thread, and its no different than say, 'make Winston Churchill POTUS'.

That said, hard to achieve... I'll see if I can't think of a plausible path to the presidency of Kenya for President Obama
 
I wonder why there are multiple "Make Barack Obama President of Kenya" threads and not a single "Make George W. Bush the Imperial Grand Wizard of the KKK" thread. For now, I'm going with the tentative hypothesis of "because some people are really racist."

My guess would be that one of those is intentionally inflammatory and the other isn't...
 
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