United States Ambassador Kyle McCarter, on Thursday, November 28, surprised journalists from various media houses in Kenya with a special gift.
He began at Citizen TV where he joined Willis Raburu's breakfast show, Day Break, where he personally delivered a well-cooked Turkey to the news anchor as part of a long-running US tradition known as Thanksgiving.
In the live morning broadcast, presenter Willis Raburu was visibly excited as he tasted the turkey while listening to a narration from the ambassador about how the tradition came to be.
"Thanksgiving in America is not just about eating lots of food but it goes back hundreds of years to time George Washington (the country's founding president) made a proclamation and 74 years later, Abraham Lincoln made it a national holiday.
"An interesting story, a lady named Sarah Hale, who was actually 74 years old, just a week before Lincoln made the proclamation she had sent a letter to lincoln and for 15 years she had sent it to the president and they'd all refuse but he responded to the woman," he narrated while on the programme.
At NTV offices, the ambassador arrived with another turkey and the staff on the third floor of the Nation Building in Nairobi CBD could not hide their excitement.
Later on in the day, McCater also visited K24 TV offices where he shared the meal with the station's news anchors Sam Njoroge and Shiksha Arora.
Thanksgiving is a national holiday in the United States, celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.
Originally a harvest festival, Thanksgiving has been celebrated nationally on and off since 1789, with a proclamation by President George Washington after a request by Congress.
The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621.
This feast lasted three days, and as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow, it was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims.
