Listen to an interview with filmmaker Bruce Hercules who discusses his travels with Barack Obama on the then Senator’s voyage to Kisumu, Kenya, where Obama’s father is from. The documentary, titled “Senator Obama Goes to Africa” also follow’s Obama’s journey to Robben Island – the prison where Nelson Mandela was jailed for 21 years and to a Darfur refugee camp in Chad.

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Watch the trailer to Senator Obama Goes to Africa from director Bruce Hercules.