I think this must be just really hasty or poor word choice ('native' for 'ancestral'?). But TPM Reader AH just flagged for us that in his column today Howie Kurtz refers to Kenya as President Obama's "native country."

Back in Kenya

The Boston Globe has an interesting piece from Obama's native country on attempts to cash in:

"The price of land here has skyrocketed because of rampant speculation about an Obama family museum that the Kenyan Ministry of Tourism has promised to build. And there have been some modest, but tangible, signs of progress that seem tied to the village's new notoriety. Within a week of Obama's election victory last year, the government began to pave the main road to town. It also brought in an electricity and water lines to Obama's step-grandmother's compound.

Late Update: As I suspected, poor word choice. Kurtz explains.