Kenya deports American author who criticized Obama. Kenyan authorities questioned then deported an American author who was in the nation to promote a book criticizing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, reports the BBC. Jerome Corsi was going to hold a news conference about his book “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality” before Kenyan authorities brought him in for questioning at immigration headquarters and took him to the airport and deported him. According to Corsi, his book would “expose deep secret ties between U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama and a section of the Kenyan government leaders.” The book also accuses Obama of contributing $1 million to Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga during Odinga’s run for president. (Odinga is from the same town as Obama’s father.) The book further claims that Obama was raised as a Muslim. Obama denies these charges. Obama, whose father was from Kenya, is wildly popular in the country so some are questioning the timing of immigration officials. Kenyan officials contend he was deported for not having all of his immigration papers. Corsi was taken in right before a press conference for the controversial book, but had already been in the country for a week.
 

Nigeria set to honor Black Americans. The west African nation of Nigeria will honor such Black Americans as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Marcus Garvey by renaming streets after them in the nation’s administrative capital. Federal Capital Territory Minister Aliyu Umar said the roads to be renamed, about 80 of them, had been “inappropriately named.” Many of them were named after former military governors, he said. “Some of the names have no relevance or affinity to our existence, history or culture,” he said during an event celebrating the nations 48 years of independence. “The occasion is to celebrate names which have contributed to Nigeria’s democracy,” he continued. Other legends in the nation such as Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe will also be honored by having a street named after them, along with several other noted countrymen in sports in music. “We honor Malcolm X, who taught Black people to stand up for their dignity wherever they are, Rosa Parks who single-handedly confronted discrimination and Martin Luther King [whose] dream lives on.”

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