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Ben Carson will visit his ancestral homeland of Kenya
December 9, 2015
By Lily Kuo*
[caption id="attachment_22991" align="alignleft" width="586"] Another White House candidate with Kenyan roots.(Reuters/Chris Keane)[/caption]
US Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson is trying a new tactic to boost his faltering campaign: claiming his African roots. The retired neurosurgeon announced that he will be visiting Kenya, as well as Nigeria and Zambia, later this month. “My ancestors are from the Kenya, Tanzania region… I’ve had all of that traced back,” he said in an interview on the Hugh Hewitt radio show on Dec 7.
In Kenya, where president Barack Obama’s father was born, reaction online ran from excited to sarcastic:
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