i stood with alma over barack obama, sr.,'s grave. a police where the president went stand there. n't know very well. let me share the moment between alma and myself over this grave. your father passed away when he was 43. you at least got some years with him. your brother didn't. >> not at all. >> reporter: so when your brother reached out to you with a letter in the early '80s and you visited with him in chicago and then you returned the favor and had him come to kenya, what were questions he wanted to know about his ancestral family and specifically about his dad. >> it was really easy talking to my brother. we kind of hit it off. and all the questions he asked i anticipated them. he wanted to know everything. he wanted to know everything about us everything about my father everything about our family. i took him to so many relatives. my brother wanted to know everything. i can't answer that question any other way. i think it's normal because he was part of finding about his own identity. >> reporter: when you got the letter to first meet barack obama you thought it was your fat

alma obama, and we even went into the family homestead. er momma sarah. here is just one part of our interview. when barack obama embarks on his first visit to kenya as president, all eyes will be on this remote village of kogello, a distant community where president obama's father is buried buried, in a place where they consider barack obama his son and everywhere you look there are traces of the american commander in chief. the senator barack obama primary school, these signs leading to the obama family homestead where the president's step-grandmother momma sara still lives. you've lived all around the world. but this is home. >> this is my ancestral home. we have a homestead. >> president barack obama's half sister grew up in kogelo. alma obama runs a foundation in this village, and she invited me here in this exclusive interview to show where the obama family comes from, and ahead of the president's arrival in nairobi, many here wonder if he will make the journey back to his ancestral home. do you immediately go back to little alma when

. >> reporter: alma obama and barack obama share a father. kenya. >> i know from the age of 8 that i have a certain idea of how i see myself and the kind of life i wanted to live. >> reporter: alma wanted a different future for herself than the one expected of her. >> reporter: i'm fascinated by you growing up as the only girl among all of these brothers. >> yeah. >> reporter: what was it like growing up in this culture? >> it was not that easy. one of the things that happened is i learned at a very young age, when you're a girl there are certain expectations of you regardless of how you feel and what you want. there were times i wasn't keen on doing something and ask why i had to do that they would say, because you are a girl. the answer wasn't good enough for me. >> reporter: to auma visiting her grandmother always felt like going home. >> i asked so many questions. you're a girl you should be listening. you should be passive. and i wasn't. i kept asking questions and she would tell me at the rate you're going, you'll never get married or f

obama! >> i love you back. but as alma was saying the first time i came to kenya, things were a little different. when i arrived at kenyatta airport, the airline had lost my bags. [ laughter ] that doesn't happen on air force one. they always have my luggage on air force one. as she said, alma picked me up in an old volkswagen beetle, and i think the entire stay i was here, it broke down four or five times. we'd be on the highway, we'd have to call the jokali. he'd bring his tools. we'd be sitting there waiting, and i slept on a cot in her apartment, instead of eating at fancy banquets with the president, we were drinking tea and eating ugali, sekumau, weiku, and so there wasn't a lot of luxury. sometimes the lights would go out. "they still do," is that what someone said? but you know, there was something more important than luxury on that first trup. and that was a sense of being recognized, being seen. you was a young man and i was just a few years out of university. i'd worked as a community organizer in low income nei

if you talk to alma obama. >> this is his grandmother. >> and just before you get there it's paved.ally improved this town because of the pride of the people and the pride knowing that barrack obama descends from this place. >> and that pride from his sister too. you sat down with her. tell us what she said. >> he is a pretty phenomenal woman. we were the first journalists able to show her foundation. it means powerful voices and i found it fascinating that she and her brother, they grew up in different parts of the world and share this common passion of service helping young disadvantaged people. we talked about here in the united states with president obama. she stalktalked to me about the pride she had for her brother. >> he's been in the white house for seven years. can you describe the most proud moment for your brother. >> getting in the white house. >> getting in. >> just getting in. he got in twice. i'm proud of that yeah. >> did you see him recently break out into amazing grace? have you seen that video? ♪ amazing grace ♪ >> i'm surprised he sang so well. it was amazing. it

obama. he was very proud. >> reporter: alma has only become closer with her brother through the years.rcely protective of your brother and your nieces and your sister-in-law, and i'm just wondering where that comes from. >> a sense of self-preservation. >> reporter: even though they grew up half a world away they share a passion for helping young people. >> i'm proud of our name because my brother really has carried our name out there and made it really what can i say, it's really -- it's made its mark in the world. that is special. it's special for us and for our children and for our communities because it tells every child that if you work hard you can do whatever you want in this world. you can make your future. so what i'm trying to do here he has done. >> reporter: he's been in the white house for seven years. can you describe the most proud moment? >> getting in the white house. >> reporter: getting in the white house. getting in. >> getting in. he got in twice. i'm proud of that. i'm seriously proud of that. >> reporter: did you see him recently break out into "amazing grace"? h

obama who runs a phenomenal foundation helping young kids in the community find their own powerful voice, also some of what almar would say with barack obama if the father were alive today. it was a pinch-me experience, that's for sure. >> of course it's not on the official itinerary for him to visit but did you sense anticipation it's possible? >> you sense definite anticipation just walking up into the homestead, going into mama cera's home, this is the 93-year-old grandmother who remembers meeting barack obama as if it were yesterday, fresh plantings along her driveway, newly paved roads. i was asking alma how disappointed people will be in this village -- village full of little boys named barack obama and schools named barack obama -- and i think, you know, they're realistic but it's tremendous in this tribe, in this cultural heritage that is pride is pervasive. and i think just knowing barack obama comes from or his father comes from this village, this part of kenya and that this is the very first time as president of the united states that barack obama will be returning to his ancestral home nation is a h

he sang and danced with relatives like half-sister alma who introduced mr. obamaold volkswagen and returned in a motorcade. >> he gets it. he's one of us. >> reporter: kenyans swarmed the president as he departed knowing the next time he returns to this land it will be when he's out of office, though one woman told us he left a message that will last. >> i think it's going to change my life actually by preventing a woman from hargsment. >> reporter: just as the president departed, there were reporting of casualties from large terror attacks in both nigeria and somalia, so expect him to talk about the fight against terrorist groups like al shabab and boko haram. jim acosta nairobi, kenya. >>> now some christians in garissa, kenya are standing up to worship despite death threats. al shabab killed dozens of non-muslims. >> reporter: sun rise over the tana river. traffic starts to flow over the bridge and into garissa town. the morning commute into garissa is day laborers people going into their offices but also so many christians who are too scared to sleep inside ga

obama is traveling in africa with a first stop in kenya and now ethiopia. linsey davis is traveling with the president. >> reporter: after a rousing welcome by his half sister almassein obama. >> reporter: president obama's speech was half homecoming half best practices for progress. >> i am proud to be the first american president to come to kenya, and of course i'm the first kenyan american to be president of the united states. >> reporter: his messagetology 45 hundred kenyans, kenya is at a crossroads of peril and promise. it needs a more transparent democracy to change the culture of corruption and start empowering women and girls. >> imagine if you have a team and you don't let half of the team play. that's stupid. >> reporter: while he also talked about the fight against terrorism and the feed to treat everyone equally despite who they worship or love the visit wasn't all business. as if a presidential rite of passage, president obama showed off his dance moves to the music of softy soul. here in eeth yoemia human rights is expected to be a major talking point. president obama is also the first sitting u.s. president to visit this country, as well. linsey

alma. jaime: considerado uno de los mejores trompetistas de jazz. ha ganado 10 premios emys a lo mejor de la mÚsica. el presidente obamaaime: 38 inmigrantes naturalizados, originarios de 30 paÍses. figura la subsecretarÍa de estado marÍa otero, el entrenador de bÉisbol eddie perez, la actriz sofÍa vergara, la cantante thalÍa y arturo sandoval. marÍa: todos podemos contribuir a la grandeza de este paÍs pero cuando nos hacemos ciudades y votamos estamos en el antesala de la creaciÓn de una nueva amÉrica. jaime: la aportaciÓn de arturo va mÁs allÁ de la mÚsica. arturo: en un instituto que no tiene otro fin que ayudar a jÓvenes que quien estudiÓ mÚsica de familias de bajos recursos. jaime: es una verdadera leyenda de la mÚsica jazz en estados unidos. la importancia es que los emigrantes sean el cuerpo y alma y se integran a la sociedad para contribuir todos los valores como lo ha hecho a lo largo de su carrera. en los angeles, jaime garcÍa, univisiÓn. jorge: y ahora para terminar plaza sÉsamo le dice adiÓs a una de sus vecinas mÁs querida la puertorriqueÑa sonia manzano que por 45 aÑos interpretÓ a marÍa, en la serie. anun

obama. to hear a little bit more about this father who both alma and barak share was a special moment. >> youibe her proudest moment about her brother and his accomplishments. what did she say to you? >> reporter: i think it's easy the fact that he was ultimately elected as president of the united states twice over. here is what she said. >> he has been in the white house for seven years. can you describe the most moment? >> getting in the white house. >> reporter: getting in? >> yeah. he got in twice. i'm proud of that. i'm seriously proud of that. >> reporter: did you see him recently break out into amazing grace? have you seen that video? >> i did. ♪ amazing grace ♪ >> i'm surprised he sapgng so well. it was amazing. it was amazing. >> go on. >> reporter: on the record president obama is only supposed to be in nairobi. a lot of people in the village hoping that he makes a side stop there. full of pride. >> they hope. great interview. thanks so much. there will be more of the interview with the president's relatives in kenya on cnn's newsroom. watch tomorrow and friday at 3:00 eastern only

alma made an address to the crowds. she spoke way warmly of the old days when a young obama used to come to kenya. in fact 27 years ago she drove to the airport and picked him up in her volkswagen beetle, which was basically breaking down all the time and his luggage had been lost. now it was very different, she was saying. she was transported in his let me seen and of course all his cases were safely stored on air force one and brought to his abode here. anyway the speech itself was concentrating on the past. he spoke about his grandfather who served colonial rule and his father, who had to go overseas to get an education. he said people had now massive opportunities in kenya. he said that they shouldn't let go of those opportunities. he spoke of a hoax raft of issues related to sexual discrimination he felt was taking place here. he spoke of domestic violence. he spoke of inequality. he said so many issues to address, but people can do it, that kenya has the capacity to do that now. this is what he said about corruption. >> here in kenya it's time to change habits and decisively break that cycle

his half sister alma greeted him at the airport and got in the back of his limousine to drive out. andrew simmons, al jazeera nairobi. >> president obama will open a global summit tomorrow, one of the biggest challenges involves improving security especially in kenya. be patricia sabga haspatricia sabga has more. >> marking the first visit of a sitting u.s. president and the first to his father's home land since becoming president. >> kenya was the home of the president's father. he still has relatives there so there is a strong emotional tie of the president but clearly it's a very strategic trip. >> reporter: ken yah is on the front lines of the fight against al shabaab. an al qaeda affiliate based in somalia that's carried out over 100 attacks in somalia since 2011 including a three day siege in westgate mall in 2013 and the massacre of 148 people at garissa university this past april. but the response by kenya's security services including alleged extra judicial killings harassment and detention of muslims is viewed by many as counterproductive to regional security. >> it's really important for kenyan government to realize that the

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obama. he was very proud. >> reporter: alma has only become closer with her brother through the years.in-law, and i'm just wondering where that comes from. >> a sense of self-preservation. >> reporter: and even though they grew up half a world away, they share a passion for helping young people. >> i'm proud of our name because my brother really has carried our name up there and made it really i mean what can i say? it's really it's made its mark in the world. and hathat is special. and it's special for us and our children and our community because it tells every child, if you work hard you can do whatever you want in this world. you can make your future. so what i'm trying to do here he has done. >> that is so inspiring. if you work hard that's her message there. >> the american dream in kenya. >> imagine being his half sister and seeing your half brother end up becoming president of the most powerful nation in the world. >> he has other relatives around the world. i spoke with his half brother in china who lives in shen jen if i remember correctly. so he has a lot of relatives everyw