Obama’s grandmother to cook for Prez on Kenya trip

President Barack Obama’s Kenyan grandmother, known as Mama Sarah, vowed today to cook a traditional meal for her grandson when he visits the East African nation, the birthplace of his father, later this month.

“With regards to what food I will prepare for Barack on his visit, I will prepare all the traditional food available,” she said, speaking her Luo language through a translator on a visit to Nairobi. 

She tempted him with the offer of dishes including fish, chicken and maize porridge. “It does not matter whether Barack is a senator or a president,” she added. “He will have what I have prepared for him.” 

Mama Sarah was the third wife of US president’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango <g data-gr-id="18">Obama,</g> and lives in the small village of Kogelo in western Kenya which is home to a number of the president’s relatives.

She said she had asked him to travel to Kogelo “to pay respect to his father’s grave.”