The US election has triggered a new generation of Barack Obamas and
one Mitt Romney with parents in Kenya naming their newborns after the newly re-elected president and his defeated rival Mitt Romney.
At a general hospital in western Kenya, Barack’s ancestral homeland,
several mothers were naming their babies after the US' first
African-American president and Romney hours after official announcement
that
Obama had been re-elected.
Millicent Awuor, 20, named her newly born twins Barrack Obama and
Mitt Romney, saying she named the first twin Barack and the second one
Mitt just the way Obama and Romney performed in the US election.
Another mother, who named her baby after the US President said she
wanted her newborn to grow up to have the same successful traits as
Obama.
Obama has been elevated to rock star status in the east African
nation which had named a beer, "president", after him during the last
elections in 2008.
The name “Barack” means blessed while “Obama” was the given name of his great-grandfather that became his grandfather's surname.
