Obama's AncestralHome

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Barack Obama visits Kenya and Ethiopia this month. His ancestral home of Kogelo is home to Sarah Hussein Obama, his step-grandmother.

The Kenyan village, burial place of Obama’s father, features an open-pit goldmine, a pork butcher, and school named after their most famous son.

A boy plays during breaktime at the Senator Obama primary school in the village of Kogelo, west of Kenya's capital of Nairobi on July 16.

A motorcyclist wearing a T-shirt with the image of US President Barack Obama waits for fuel at the trading center in Kogelo on July 15.

A man walks near wooden stalls at the trading center in the village of Kogelo on July 15.

Rosa Anyango carries a bag with the colors of the US flag as she walks from the market near the ancestral home of President Obama in Kogelo on June 22.

Patricia Anyango arranges fish at her stall within the trading center of Kogelo on July 14.

A boy stands outside a maize-mill within the trading center in the village of Kogelo on July 15.

Vivian Odhiambo, 24, fries samosas in the trading center of Kogelo on July 14.

Gold prospectors pose for a photograph at an open-pit mine in the village of Kogelo on July 15.

Lynette Akinyi, a school teacher, leads a class at the Senator Obama primary school in the village of Kogeloon July 16.

Seven-year-old Barack Obama, named after US President Barack Obama, walks at the Senator Obama primary school in Kogelo village on July 16.

Pupils play during breaktime at the Senator Obama primary school in the village of Kogelo on July 16.

A boy carries a bucket at sunset in the village of Kogelo on July 15.

A woman is seen at a shop within the trading center of the village of Kogelo on July 15.

The grave of US President Barack Obama's father, Barack Hussein Obama Senior, and his grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama July 14.

Margaret Ngesa of the Legion Maria of African Church Mission prays for the state visit of President Obama in the village of Kogelo on July 15.

Mary Adhiambo, 25, poses with her twin daughters Faith Atieno (right) and Mercy Atieno inside her house in Kogelo on July 15.

Elizabeth Aluoch has her hair done in the village of Kogelo on July 15.

Men drive a donkey-cart as they carry water from a stream in the village of Kogelo on July 15.

Gold prospectors work at an open-pit mine in the village of Kogelo on July 15.

Boys walk home for lunch from school in the village of Kogelo on July 16.