US President Obama hits the dance floor during Kenya trip

Although Sauti Sol seemed to have full confidence in Obama’s abilities, it seems he might have had a few doubters as the group captioned the video, “And for those who doubted President @barackobama’s step – the #LipalaDance #SuraYako is his new favorite Kenyan dance!”

On Saturday, Obama said many of his African initiatives, including a program to vastly increase access to power, were intended to be years-long efforts.

One official said the U.S. sees the two sides as “utterly indifferent” to the country’s suffering. Under different circumstances, or delivered by someone else, the speech could have sounded like intrusive moralizing by a foreign president. “We urge both governments to speed up the process so that the remaining can get their compensation”.

“A magical lecture”, declared Kenya’s Standard newspaper. It was the first time he visited the nation as the leader of the free world.

Obama met with African youth and civic leaders and planned to be interviewed by a local radio host before departing Kenya.

Barack Obama Sr. was a self-motivated, promising government economist whose career was cut short due largely to tribal discrimination and government corruption, but also his personal struggles with alcohol.

But senior aides to the president said they aren’t optimistic that there will be a breakthrough at the meeting set for today or before an August 17 deadline set by the negotiators.

He also warned that Kenya would “not succeed if it treats women and girls as second-class citizens”.

“Visiting a country which is totally contrary to the values of the West is very controversial”, he said. Those are bad traditions: “they need to change”.

“Secret Service generally doesn’t like me climbing mountains”, Obama said in an interview on Kenyan radio station Capital FM. We’re in a sports centre: imagine if you have a team and don’t let half of the team play.

The US-Africa relations will not work through such divisive means.

In a speech in Nairobi, he said his father’s homeland had “come so far in just my lifetime”. In Kibera, the city’s largest slum, a few draped American flags from their homes and stores. Or for example it is like Obama goes to London or Madrid or The Hague or even Japan and says your monarchy is oppressive and a waste of money and should be done away with.

Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto said in May that there was “no room” for gays in Kenya.

Acknowledging that a few Kenyans have been frustrated that it took him until the seventh year of his presidency to visit, Obama joked that he did not want the rest of Africa to think he was “playing favorites”. “That is not the case”.

Reinforcing that message, Obama recalled details of pre-presidential trips to Kenya replete with the stuff of everyday life: broken down cars, traditional foods and an airline losing his luggage. “In these extended families, there are cousins and uncles and aunties that show up that you didn’t know existed, but you’re always happy to meet”, Obama said. “That, by definition, makes it complicated”.

Later on Sunday, Mr Obama arrived in neighbouring Ethiopia, the headquarters of the African Union.