President Biden and first lady Jill Biden are preparing to host Kenya, the first African nation in nearly 14 years, for a state dinner Thursday at the White House, with a menu that includes lavish ...

Brad and Kimberly Williams Paisley arrive at the Booksellers area of the White House for the State Dinner hosted by President Biden and first lady Jill Biden for Kenya’s President William Ruto ...

Kenya last had a White House state dinner in 2003. No African nation has had one since President George W. Bush honored Ghana’s President John Kufuor five years after that. The Bidens previously ...

The invitation list for Thursday’s White House state dinner included ... to Thursday night’s state dinner. The NFL hosted a talent identification camp in Kenya last year as it looked ...

Thursday's state dinner had about 500 attendees ... the same warmth that I felt on my visits to Kenya.” The three-course meal, developed by White House Executive Chef Cris Comerford ...

Kenya has agreed to send 1,000 ... as “the grandest and most glamorous of White House affairs.” President Ulysses S. Grant served the first state dinner in 1874 when he hosted the last king ...

Bush. And the last White House state dinner for Kenya was in 2003, also under Bush, who toasted Kenya’s president at the time, Mwai Kibaki, with a Swahili proverb about persistence, while the ...