{"id":32039,"date":"2013-07-02T02:02:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T02:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32039"},"modified":"2013-07-19T01:46:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T01:46:46","slug":"dala-or-diaspora-obama-and-the-luo-community-of-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32039","title":{"rendered":"Dala or Diaspora? Obama and the Luo Community of Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/afraf\/adp002\" target=\"_blank\">Dala or Diaspora? Obama and the Luo Community of Kenya<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/afraf.oxfordjournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">African Affairs<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/afraf.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/108\/431.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 108, Issue 431<\/a> (2009)<br \/>\npages 197-219<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/afraf\/adp002\" target=\"_blank\">10.1093\/afraf\/adp002<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlawu.edu\/user\/772\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Carotenuto<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor History<br \/>\n<em>St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/history\/faculty\/katherine-a-luongo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Luongo<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As members of the ethnic group to which the American President&#8217;s paternal family belongs, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luo_people_of_Kenya_and_Tanzania\" target=\"_blank\">Luo people<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kenya\" target=\"_blank\">Kenya<\/a> and in the diaspora have been eagerly claiming Barack Obama as \u2018their own\u2019 since 2004. This embrace speaks to a range of ethno-political developments in Kenya throughout the twentieth century. Luo identity has been primarily constituted within a diasporic context, beginning with the large-scale labour migrations of the early twentieth century and continuing with the activities of the \u2018dot.com\u2019 generation into the present. Simultaneously, patrimonial politics constituted along ethnic lines have rendered Luos political outsiders and heightened the urgency of securing a powerful patron. Given these two trends, Luo people at home and abroad have reached into the diaspora with hopes of finding their biggest \u2018Big Man\u2019 in the figure of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/afraf.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/108\/431\/197.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dala or Diaspora? Obama and the Luo Community of Kenya African Affairs Volume 108, Issue 431 (2009) pages 197-219 DOI: 10.1093\/afraf\/adp002 Matthew Carotenuto, Associate Professor History St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York Katherine Luongo, Assistant Professor of History Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts As members of the ethnic group to which the American President&#8217;s paternal family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1649,12,63,459,8],"tags":[15086,15085,12821,15087,15084],"class_list":["post-32039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-african-affairs","tag-katherine-luongo","tag-kenya","tag-luo","tag-matthew-carotenuto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}