On Nov 5, 5:47*am, tg > wrote:
> From The Times
> November 5, 2008
>
> Barack Obama's Kenyan family celebrate by slaughtering bulls, chicken
> and goats
>
> There's only one thing to take to a Kenyan election victory feast: a
> goat. Preferably still breathing - “a sign of freshness“ - and with
> big testicles, apparently the sign of quality breeding.
>
> And so it was that I found myself bouncing along a dirt track towards
> the ancestral home of the Obamas in a saloon car with the sound of
> John the goat bleating miserably from the boot.
>
> It had not been easy finding such a quality specimen. The local
> livestock market had mostly sheep and cattle, with only a few scrawny
> goats on hand.
>
> Instead, John was spotted at the side of the road by my driver George,
> who was impressed by the size of its belly and, well, other
> attributes.
>
> He was mine for 2500 shillings, a little under £20, and roughly the
> price of 20 pints of beer or eight malaria-proof bednets.
>
> “This is a fine animal,” said Abongo Malik Obama, at the lush family
> homestead in the far west of Kenya, surrounded by grazing cattle and
> fields thick with maize. “You are certainly welcome now to stay and
> sit around the fire tonight.” By then John will be nyama choma - the
> Swahili term for grilled meat.
>
> He was to be only one small part of a vast celebration feast starting
> last night and comprising four bulls, 16 chickens and assorted sheep
> and goats.
>
> “We are Africans, so our plan is to slaughter a bull and have friends
> come over,” said Abongo, the candidate’s oldest half-brother.
>
> “We invite Kogelo (the village where Mr Obama's Kenyan family lives)
> to come over and it will be open house. People will just come on over
> and bring a couple of sodas.”
>
> Losing has never been considered in a country gripped by Obamamania
> for the best part of four years. Ever since their “lost son” was
> elected to the Senate everyone has been expecting him to become
> president.
>
> Every twist and turn of his primary battle and general election
> campaign have been followed in the local papers and on television in
> the belief that his rise was inevitable.
>
> Today, early signs of celebration were obvious everywhere, long before
> the polls opened.
>
> American flags hung from trees in the city centre of Kisumu, the
> regional capital, and flapped from the handlebars of bicycle taxis.
>
> The Jamaican reggae hit, “Barack Obama”, by Cocoa Tea boomed from
> matatus - the battered minibus taxis that most locals use to get
> around.
>
> And bars were setting up big screens so that patrons could watch
> television coverage from the US as a whole nation held its breath for
> the signal to celebrate.
>
> In Kogelo, women peeled onions and stoked cooking fires - yet another
> reminder of the vast gulf between his American dream and their African
> reality.
>
> Children rehearsed their songs ahead of a party being held at a
> neighbouring school, the Senator Barack Obama Secondary School, while
> gospel music pumped from a marquee where priests were praying for
> victory.
>
> Abongo, sitting in front of the tin-roofed shack that once belonged to
> Obama’s father, a government economist who died in a car accident more
> than two decades ago, said dozens of family members had congregated
> for a historic event.
>
> “The reason we are here is that we are looking forward to a great day
> to celebrate,” he said, rubbishing any suggestion that Mr McCain might
> win. “We are not considering that possibility. I am not,” he said
> confidently, as a cock crowed in the shade of a mango tree.” The first
> stage of the celebrations was starting tonight.
>
> Relatives, including some from England, were planning to stay up
> watching the results start to filter across the Atlantic.
>
> Tomorrow, they will move to the neighbouring school where the chickens
> are breathing their last.
>
> “It’s going to be chaotic,” said Ben Semel, from New York, who was
> helping organise the feast, “especially when everyone goes through the
> election night without sleeping.”
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle5082040.ece
>
> www.davidduke.com

We celebrated with beef and muttun steaks in Toronto! We dont know who
killed the animals!