[custom_adv] Former President Barack Obama has visited Kenya, his father’s native country, for the first time since leaving office.Mr Obama travelled to Kenya, for a two-day visit, to help support the launch of a sports, training and vocational centre founded by his half-sister, Dr Auma Obama, through her foundation Sauti Kuu, the Associated Press reported. [custom_adv] Sauti Kuu aims to provide economic opportunities for young people in rural Kenya. Its new centre will help the youth acquire new skills through education and sports, the foundation’s website states. [custom_adv] While in Kenya, Mr Obama reportedly visited Nyang’oma K’ogelo in Siaya County, the village where his father grew up. He also attended a launch event for Sauti Kuu’s new sports and vocational centre, where he delivered a speech detailing his first trip to Kenya, at 27 years old, and the time he spent with Ms Auma Obama. [custom_adv] Mr Obama commended his sister for the opportunities her foundation provides the youth. Mr Obama can be seen dancing and later playing basketball during the launch ceremony for the centre in videos published online. [custom_adv] In a Twitter post published 15, July, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta wrote that he met with the former US president and Ms Auma Obama during Mr Obama’s visit. [custom_adv] “It was a great pleasure to welcome you back,” Mr Kenyatta wrote.Mr Kenyatta and his political opposition leader Raila Odinga notably held a surprise meeting promising unity and healing in March, following a period of political strife after Mr Kenyatta’s election victory. [custom_adv] Mr Obama was reportedly expected to meet with Mr Odinga during his visit, the AP reported.Michelle Obama danced front row of Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Paris concert. [custom_adv] We are upbeat about the coming of the President Barack Obama,” said Siaya County Governor Cornell Rasanga ahead of Mr Obama’s visit. [custom_adv] Obama was born in 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, two years after the territory was admitted to the Union as the 50th state. Raised largely in Hawaii, he also spent one year of his childhood in Washington state and four years in Indonesia. [custom_adv] After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago. In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. [custom_adv] After graduation, he became a civil rights attorney and professor and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He represented the 13th District for three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, when he ran for the U.S. Senate. [custom_adv] He received national attention in 2004 with his unexpected March primary win, his well-received July Democratic National Convention keynote address, and his landslide November election to the Senate. [custom_adv] n 2008, he was nominated for president a year after his campaign began and after a close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton. He was elected over Republican John McCain and was inaugurated on January 20, 2009.