Kenyan authorities have detained the American author of a highly critical book about US presidential candidate Barack Obama, officials have said. They said Jerome Corsi was being held in the capital, Nairobi, because of a problem with his papers.

The author of The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality has been accused of a smear campaign against Mr Obama. Mr Obama’s father was from Kenya, where the US candidate is highly popular.

Mr Corsi had travelled to Kenya to launch his best-selling book there. http://connectafrica./2008/10/07/author-of-obama-nation-arrested-in-kenya/