President Obama to visit Nairobi in July

US President Barack Obama 

This will be his first visit to the country since being elected President.

In Summary

• President Obama announced on his Twitter account that he would attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi in July.
• This would be his first visit to the country since being elected President in 2008.

• Obama visited Kenya as a senator and skipped it during his Africa tour in 2014.

US President Barack Obama, whose father is Kenyan, has announced that he will visit Nairobi in July. 

President Obama announced on his Twitter account that he would attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi.

This would be his first visit to the country since being elected President in 2008.

Obama visited Kenya as a senator in 2006 and skipped it during his Africa tour in 2014.

He stopped in neighbouring Tanzania and pledged to visit Kenya before leaving the White House.

The President's father came to the United States for school and returned to Kenya after his son's birth. 

The elder Obama died more than 30 years ago but the president has other relatives in Kenya, including Mama Sarah Obama, his step grandmother.