Barack Obama and the Flying Circus is a perfect way to describe current President of the United States and his prominent Cabinet.

For the past year and a half every single day was and still is about Barack Obama and his extravaganza. Day just does not go by without Obama: What did Obama say? What did Obama do? What will Obama say? What will Obama do? In addition, we have witnessed media madness for Obama’s dog, Obama’s family, Obama’s citizenship, Obama’s religion, Obama’s cabinet, Obama’s associates, among others.

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Jomo Kenyattapron. (c. 18942 – 22 August 1978) served as the first Prime Minister (1963–1964) and President (1964–1978) of Kenya. He is considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation.
In Kenya, Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi's main street and main streets in many cities and towns, numerous schools, two Universities (Kenyatta University and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology), the country's main referral hospital, markets, and housing estates are named after Jomo Kenyatta. A statue in downtown Nairobi and monuments all over Kenya stand in his honour. Kenya observes a public holiday every 20 October in his honour. His face adorns Kenyan currency notes and coins of all denominations.

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Byline: RICHARD PENDELBURY
WHEN the aged Dr Hastings Banda, first President of Malawi and one of Africa’s most ruthless and durable dictators, died three weeks ago, Peter French was moved to search out a bundle of papers from his attic and study their contents for the first time in 20 years.

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