First visit I remember reading was ‘83 .. and
an African publication repeats that. Don’t know
which lying site is saying it’s ‘87.
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A Sunday Nation team that set out to trace Obama’s roots was surprised to find that, unknown to many, Obama has actually been to this village twice. First in 1983, when he had come to mourn his late father, Barack Hussein Obama, who had died in Nairobi in 1982; and again in 1995 when he brought home his young bride to show her his roots.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200408160533.html
Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendell also puts this first visit in 1983. U.K.’s Independent and Obama’s Uncle Sayid specify 1987 for the first trip, as did Obama himself when speaking to college students in Kenya in 2006. Remnick sticks to the official version of 1988 in his exhaustive 2010 Obama biography, “The Bridge.”
In “Dreams,” Obama dedicates 131 pages to this African pilgrimage. It is the climactic chapter of the book and presumably his life. And yet two years into his presidency, there is still nothing close to a consensus as to when he actually made this journey.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=220589