Kogelo (Kenya), Nov. 5 : Relatives of U. S. President elect Barack Obama are celebrating his victory in Kogelo in western Kenya.

According to a report in the Guardian, Obama’s Kenyan relatives streamed out of Mama Sarah''s compound, dancing and singing loudly in the local Luo language: "We are going to Obama, we are going to the White House."

Wednesday Nairobi/Kogelo - US presidential favourite Barack Obama's Kenyan family were gathering for an election night party in the western village of Kogelo Tuesday as US voters went to the polls.

Around 20 family members had shown up at the senator's ancestral home in Kogelo, where his grandmother Sarah Obama still lives.

Journalists and well-wishers were locked out of the Obama household as the party got under way.