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Published on: 2/25/2008
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Mark Bellamy, a senior fellow in residence with the CSIS Africa Program, was quoted by Slate.com, "Obama Gets Dressed."
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Mark Bellamy
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I spoke with Mark Bellamy, a former ambassador to Kenya and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who told me that Wajir is a pastoral town of about 5,000 people,almost all of whom are Muslim.Bellamy,who hasn't declared his preference in the presidential race,didn't recognize the "outfit" but said it wasn't Islamic garb.He thought it was probably some sort of traditional Somali-Kenyan dress and that the people hosting Obama offered it to him as a sign of hospitality."Wherever I travel I get dressed up in same way," he said, "out of consideration for the hosts."
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