Um, I did do research and found multiple articles about Obama’s grandmother holding court in front of her house in Kenya on January 18, and about other family members’ preparations to attend the inauguration. Holding what is basically a press conference to talk about your grandson becoming president of the US isn’t what I would interpret as being shut down by the government.
Holding court and planning to attend the inauguration are not equivalent to having the press or other foreigners asking them questions and answering them. DId you not see those articles? The Kenyan gov. representative, don’t remember his name or title, announced that no one was allowed to talk to the Obama family without the permission of the government. If you can’t find those articles, just keep looking. They’re there.
Well, to be fair, you’re only attending to part of the statement, and misrepresenting it as people “being shut down”. It was reported that Kenyans could not talk about him without governmental permission. That his grandmother was talking about going to his inauguration doesn’t disprove that. Logically, she could have had permission to say what she was going to say.