KOGELO, Kenya -- Barack Obama may already be suffering from the curse of lofty expectations here, the village where his father was born and buried.

Many of the U.S. president-elect's relatives still live here. When villagers heard Wednesday morning that Sen. Obama had won the election, they snatched up tree boughs and, waving them to whistles and a beating drum, danced down the road to the Obama family homestead.

"Obama is the king of the world," they sang. "We are going to the White House."

There was heady talk of jobs and money.