Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterHalf a World Away, Kenya Exults at U.S. Outcome
Published 11/6/2008 by Stephanie McCrummen at Wash Post Elections
KOGELO, Kenya, Nov. 5 -- By afternoon on Wednesday, truckloads of Kenyans from all over the country were making a kind of pilgrimage to a place now known as White House Africa.
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