Republican Party candidate Ben Carson claims to be Turkana
Retired American neurosurgeon and Republican Party candidate for the US presidency Ben Carson is set to visit Kenya later this month as part of his weeklong African tour from 27th December.
Mr Ben Carson has made news in the past with a self-proclamation that he has his ancestry in the Turkana community of Kenya and Tanzania. And so he plans to tour to trace his roots. “My ancestors are from the Kenya-Tanzania region, the Turkana tribe. I’ve had all of that traced back,” Dr Carson told a US radio talk-show host.
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With his visit, Mr Carson joins the list of high profile guests Kenya has hosted in the last few months beginning with Italian Prime Minister, Mateo Renzi, US President Barrack Obama and Catholic leader Pope Francis later last month.
The 64-year-old neurosurgeon is also an author having written books such as Think Big, Gifted Hands and America The Beautiful. He joined presidential contest in a Republican Party ticket but has struggled to attract rates according to American ratings. The rating places Dr Carson third among the 13 politicians seeking the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
In his maiden trip to Africa, Dr Carson will stop in Nigeria where he plans to assess the nation’s economy and the threats of Boko Haram. Dr Carson said he will also visit Zambia, the homeland of conjoined twins, Joseph and Luka Banda, whom he and his team of surgeons successfully separated in 1997 as narrated in his books, Gifted Hands and Think Big.
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