"Mandatory Credit: Photo by Arild Molstad/REX (830796c).. Barack Obama with Maasai ""mamas"".. Barack Obama visits Basecamp Masai Mara in Kenya  - 2007.. These pictures recently obtained by Rex Features show an, at the time, relatively unknown Barack Obama visiting Kenya. Basecamp Masai Mara in Mara National Reserve in Kenya is a Scandinavian initiative that aims to develop a partnership with the native Masai people. Unsurprisingly, given its inclusionist goals and message, it was the camp's impressive record that drew a famous visitor to it in 2007 - the then relatively unknown US Senator Barrack Obama. During his visit to the camp Obama and his family were thoroughly briefed on the three Ps concept that the camp lives by - People, Planet, Profit; local principles that Obama now aims to apply on the world stage. And Obama's visit certainly seems to have left an impression. Even today at the local Masai school the children happily run round with Obama caps on their heads, chanting the by"
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