Karen Rothmyer is a former Nation managing editor. More recently she lived in Kenya, where she taught at the University of Nairobi and served as the country’s first public editor.
Obama’s visit this summer will certainly be a big event, but Kenyans’ interests stretch well beyond the United States.
The reports I’ve seen describe Nairobi’s Westgate mall as upscale, but that’s not the whole story, and not how I remember it.