A young Kenyan mother has named her newborn twin
sons after the U.S. president-elect and his defeated Republican challenger.
Millicent Owuor, 20, gave birth to Barack Obama and
Mitt Romney on Wednesday at the Siaya District Hospital in southwest Kenya,
according to the Standard.
Owuor told the Kenyan news outlet her sons' names
will always remind her of the election in the United States.
The hospital is near the village of Kogelo, where
where President Barack Obama's father was born and where his 90-year-old
stepgrandmother, Sarah Obama, resides.
Jubilant residents in Kogelo cheered Obama's victory
as results from the United States were reported.
Shouts of "Hail our Kogelo son" and
"Obama is coming, open the road for him" rang through the air as
locals blew vuvuzela horns in celebration, the Standard reports.
"If Obama did not win, I believe most projects
here would stall," Joseph Onyango told the Kenyan media outlet.
Kenyans hope Obama's re-election will harken a fresh
start for a U.S. relationship with Kenya, Reuters reports.
Obama visited sub-Saharan Africa just once during
his first four years as president—a stop of less than a day in Ghana, according
to Reuters.
If Obama does visit Kenya, maybe baby Barack can
meet his namesake and baby Mitt meet the U.S. president.
There's no word yet if there have been twins named
Joe Biden and Paul Ryan.
Culled from Yahoo news
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