Last updated: 20 may, 2009 - 08:53 GMT

Celebrity granny

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BBC reporter Muliro Telewa visited Kogelo Village in the west of Kenya to see how Mama Sarah Obama, as she's fondly called, is coping with the responsibility and the glare of publicity that comes with being the grandmother of American President Barack Obama.


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