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Obama returns to Africa as celebrity.
Byline: Jeff Zeleny
CAPE TOWN, South Africa _ The last time he traveled to Africa, he wore a backpack and walked with anonymity. Fourteen years later, he arrives with a title, an entourage and such fanfare that some roads in his father's village have been freshly paved in his honor.
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., arrived here Saturday to begin a two-week, six-nation sweep through Africa, a journey steeped in political significance and personal reflection as he returns to the continent of his late father for the first time as a U.S. senator.
Amid the jubilation, Obama worried his visit had mistakenly raised expectations that he could shower prosperity on a Kenyan province that has long been awash in poverty.
"There is a sense that somehow I can deliver the largess of the U.S. government to that…
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