Where next? US-Africa relations under a Second Term

If there was one place outside Barack Obama's hometown of Chicago more excited by his November re-election, it was Kogelo. Since Obama's first election, this small market town in western Kenya - the birthplace of the US president's father - has seen a paved road, electricity, several water wells, and two hotels built.

As residents celebrated his victory with Swahili gospel songs, many hoped their star would continue to rise on the coattails of the town's famous grandson. For the rest of Africa, Kogelo has been the exception rather than the rule.Back in 2008, the chief executive of one Accra-based business conglomerate commissioned a life-size painting of the new US president which dominated his office and wowed visitors.