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Obama Day was a national holiday celebrated in Kenya on November 6 2008 in honor of Barack Obama’s victory in the United States presidential election 2008.Shortly after the U.S. election result was announced Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki declared the holiday because Obama’s father Barack Obama Sr. was Kenyan. Barack Obama himself was not born in Kenya.Perry County Alabama also declared the 2nd Monday of November to be Barack Obama Day.
