I know you love gossip. Why would you be visiting this blog if not? Well, this isnot the type of gossip which brings "scandal" but the one which put a smile in our faces: The names' Obama 'and' Michelle 'had much success on Wednesday in maternity wards in Kenya, where a woman was given two names to a pair of twins, found AFP.
At the General Hospital of the New Nyanza Province in Kisumu (western Kenya), the capital of the region where the family is originally elected U.S. president's father, Pauline Adhiambo gave birth to twins in which he called Obama and Michelle, found an AFP correspondent.
In this hospital, at least eight other children were baptized as Barack, Obama or both, while the maternity of the capital, Nairobi, and throughout the country, reported the birth of many homonyms of the future occupant of the White House.
Kisumu is the third largest town in Kenya and fiefdom of the Luo ethnic group, which belonged to the late father of Barack Obama.
In Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, six children were born Wednesday morning at the main maternity of the country were called Barack, according to the medical establishment.
"It's a historic event, not just for America but for the world," he said to AFP the proud mother of one of Barack newborns in Freetown.
Article Source: AFP