PS Materiél
gotta have the spear, Duuu-uude!
Mama Sarah Obama… [will] witness the swearing-in of her grandson Barack Obama as the 44th American President.
...she is carrying special gifts for her grandson — a Luo traditional three-legged stool, a flywhisk and a shield, which are symbols of leadership. “I wanted to give him a spear too, but I have been told that due to security reasons, I will not be allowed to board a plane with it,” Mama Sarah told The Standard.
They don’t have FedEx in Kenya?
What?
Among the relatives accompanying Mama Sarah are her son Said Obama and his wife Beatrice; Kogelo community spokesman Nicholas Rajula and his wife Nelly; Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School BOG chairman Charles Ochome and the Principal Eunita Obiero, as well as Lynn Yaya, a sister to Prime minister Raila Odinga’s wife Ida.
That’s that skool ∏eh ∅ne stiffed, iddn’t it? Maybe there’ll be some loose “green” ca$h lying around the googillion-dollar inauguration festivem [for the rest of ‘em].
"We are going to install him so that he can serve the world,” she said in Dholuo. “When he sees me he will be very happy because he will have seen his blood,” she said amid prolonged laughter.
This is the Granny who claims to have seen ∏eh ∅ne born; but we all know how grannies tell tales, right?
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