Former U.S. President Barack Obama has urged Kenya’s leaders to turn their backs on the divisive ethnic politics that have frequently spilled over into violence and to stamp down on corruption.
Opening a school in his father’s home village of Kogelo in western Kenya today, Obama praised a rapprochement between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga but said they must do more to heal the rifts between Kenya’s forty-odd ethnic groups.
In the worst recent outbreak of ethnic conflict, one thousand, two hundred people were killed in fighting that followed disputed elections involving Odinga and Kenyatta in 2007.
After Kenya, Obama will travel to South Africa, where he will deliver a speech marking the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela.
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