We come back to, “why Mombasa?” since Mombasa was 400 plus miles away from the Obama village, and twice as far as Nairobi which would have been the nearest airport.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8246070/Elsas-Legacy-The-Born-Free-Story-Nature-on-PBS-US-TV-review.html
Okay, I may have gone over your head if you are not old enough to know this sappy story.