Obama Day was a national holiday celebrated in Kenya on November 6, 2008, in honor of Barack Obama's electoral victory in the United States presidential election, 2008.[1][2]
Shortly after the U.S. election result was announced, Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki declared the holiday, because Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr., was Kenyan.[3]
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