Peeing students, nude protesters, maybe even relatives who are ticked off. It seems Barack Obama's diplomacy will be tested on his coming Kenya trip.
Obama is planning his first trip to his ancestral home since being elected president next week, and Politico reports he will be joined by a number of lawmakers on the grand tour that also includes Ethiopia.
The White House said the trip will be the first time a sitting president has visited that north African nation, and Obama will be there for the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit.
But the trip isn't expected to be without its, ahem, complications.
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A report from the Kenyan website CapitalFM explained how University of Nairobi student leader Babu Owino has written a letter to the U.S. embassy insisting that Obama give a speech at the school.
The letter claims that if Obama fails to meet the request, 31 female students "will urinate on a tree President Obama planted at the university back in 2006 when he was a senator."
The report explains that "in the Luo culture, if a lady urinates on a plant that marks the death of that plant. So it is significant that Babu mentioned ladies will pee on Obama's tree."
Babu confirmed in the interview that he wrote the letter.
And the report also suggested that 18 students had threatened to commit suicide if Obama doesn't appear on campus.
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Then there are the protesters.
Arutz Sheva reports that they will be throwing a "spanner" in Obama's trip.
The Kenyans are opposed to Obama's "attempts to 'spread homosexuality,'" so they are going to educate him on the differences between men and women – "by standing completely naked."
"The procession shall be carried out by approximately 5,000 totally naked men and women to protest over Obama's open and aggressive support for homosexuality," Vincent Kidala said in a letter to authorities announcing the demonstration, the report said.
Kidala reported thousands of prostitutes agreed to take part, free of charge, and he reported, "This is where we shall get all these people whose number we expect to increase."
Arutz Sheva reported, "The Obama administration has triggered anger in many African countries, where conservative Christians and Muslims object to his attempts to persuade African leaders to decriminalize homosexuality."
And finally, Bloomberg reported that Obama's own relatives are just a little peeved that he hasn't contacted them about his trip.
"From what I hear, he is coming now as the president of the United States," Malik Obama, 57, Barack Obama's half-brother, told Bloomberg. "He should have at least informed us as family."
Malik, the report said, reminisced about "the days when he and Obama would listen to music by Congolese artists like Franco and Mario..."
"I would like for us to just sit down and have a vanilla ice cream or a strawberry fruit cake, just to have a nice dinner, nice steak, Caesar salad, sit down and enjoy each other," Malik said. "I really don't know my nieces, Malia and Sasha, and they don't know my children either."
Sarah Obama, Barack's grandmother, chimed in, too.
"Obama is coming as guest of the state and to see people of Kenya, not me," she told the reporter.
When Barack Obama visited Africa in 2013, he skipped Kenya, and the Nairobi-based Business Daily chastised him for the snub.
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