SUCCESS STORY OF BARACK OBAMA,

President Obama reunites with Family at a Dinner in Kenya over the weekend.

The Story of Barack Obama is an inspirational success story of Zero to Hero. Few decades ago when Barack Obama travelled to Kenya his father's homeland for the first time, he travelled as a nobody, but last weekend when he arrived Kenya the whole country went agog, he was celebrated and for his security the whole nation of Kenya was locked down with US security forces. This story underscores the truth, that Whatsover the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. That one can actually rise from the floor and become very great despite the person's pigmentation (colour of skin), family or educational background. No wonder, the good book tells us in Job 8:7, that though thy begin was small thy later end shall be great.  All you nneed to do to achieve all your dreams are; have a dream, trust and obey God, be focused, pay the price and perserve and you shall become successful and great.

It was a big family reunion when President Obama arrived here in Kenya Friday 24th July, 2015.
Obama, who is visiting his father’s homeland for the fourth time but for the first time as president, sat down with three-dozen members of his Kenyan family for dinner at his hotel.

He sat next to his half-sister Auma and step-grandmother Sarah Obama, who was the third wife of the president's paternal grandfather. She’s affectionately known to many as Mama Sarah, but to President Obama, she’s just Granny.

Obama’s half-sister Auma was among the first people to greet President Obama as he walked off Air Force One at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Friday evening, local time.

When Obama first visited Kenya in 1988, Auma picked him up at the airport in a sputtering baby-blue Volkswagen Beetle that was missing a muffler. Tonight, it was a much different scene as the president treated Auma to a ride in the presidential motorcade on his fourth visit to Kenya.

Due to logistical constraints, Obama will not travel to Kogelo, the village where his father was born and buried, during this trip, officials said. Instead, Mama Sarah and others traveled to Nairobi to accompany the president on his official trip to Kenya. The president last visited Kogelo in 2006 when he traveled to Kenya as a U.S. senator.

President Obama will spent two days in Kenya before traveling to Ethiopia on Sunday. It is the first time a sitting U.S. president had visited either country.

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Barack Obama with His Granny When He Visited Kogelo Village in 1988 Kenya Where His Father was Born,

President Barack Obama has visited his father's homeland a few times in the past; in 1988, 1992, 2006 before his visit yesterday. His first visit was in 1988. He was on a journey of self-discovery to know more about his heritage and his father, who split from his mum 2 years after he was born.

On his second trip in 1992, he traveled with Michelle, who was his fiancee at the time. They married a few months after that visit. He wanted Michelle to meet his paternal grandmother & other extended family members.

He then visited in 2006 as a US senator. He moved around relatively freely and visited his father’s grave and his grandmother’s tin-roof house. Two years later, he became the president of the United States of America. (he's pictured with his grandmother above). More photos after the cut...

Barack Obama's father, also named Barack Obama, and mother, Stanley Ann Dunhamk

Barack Obama's Trips to Kenya: Then vs. Now

Barack Obama will make history this weekend as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Kenya, but it’s actually the fourth trip to his father's home country.

The latest visit, more than 25 years after his first, will bring a very different Obama face-to-face with a very different Kenya.

From Lost Luggage to Air Force One

In 1988, at just 27 years old, “Barry,” as he was known, arrived in Nairobi for the first time. He was on a journey of self-discovery to learn more about his heritage and his father, who was Kenyan.

But when his commercial flight landed in an empty airport, he felt “tired” and “abandoned," Obama wrote in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father." A gate agent informed him that the airline had misplaced his bags. And his half-sister, Auma, and Aunt Zeituni picked him up in a beat-up, baby-blue Volkswagen Beetle with a missing muffler.

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PHOTO: Barack Obama seen here in the late-1980s with members of his family in Nairobi, Kenya.

Fast forward 27 years, and Obama will be arriving on Air Force One and riding around in a heavily armored limousine. This time, he is packed with plenty of staffers, surrounded by security and awaited by Kenya’s president and the rest of the country.

From Family Pilgrimage to Official Business

On his second trip in 1992, Obama traveled with his new fiance, Michelle Obama, as a young lawyer. They were married that October, and, he would later joke, he had to make sure he had his paternal grandmother’s approval, according to one biography.

In “Dreams From My Father,” Obama described drifting through the streets of Nairobi, visiting slums, and going out dancing and drinking. It was a picture of a young man at a pivotal moment in his life, freely wandering through his father’s homeland. He has prolonged, deeply personal conversations with family members and travels extensively around the country.

Even on his 2006 visit to Kenya, when he was greeted with much fanfare and celebrity, then-Sen. Obama was able to move around relatively freely, from cities to villages and through large crowds. He visited his father’s grave and his grandmother’s tin-roof house.

This weekend, it’s strictly business. The first family is not coming with the president, and his schedule is packed with meetings, conferences and state dinners.

From Wandering Tourist to Security Lockdown

Obama will be on a tight schedule during the visit. There will be no village visit. He doesn’t even plan to leave the capital during his whole stay. There's talk that family members will come to him, meeting him before his major speech Sunday or at the hotel, at some point. But there’s also a good chance he won’t see any of them.

He’ll be on even tighter security, too. With the threat of the al-Shabaab militant group in neighboring Somalia and a leak of some of his itinerary, there are raised concerns for his safety. The Secret Service will keep the president in a tight bubble to prevent anything from happening -- something Obama has lamented.

“Visiting Kenya as a private citizen is probably more meaningful to me than visiting as president because I can actually go outside of the hotel room or a conference center,” he said in a July 15 news conference at the White House. “And just the logistics of visiting a place are always tough as president, but it’s obviously symbolically important.