People are beginning to gather along Mombasa Road in anticipation of Obama's arrival.

Nathan, an 18-year-old law student, had this t-shirt specially made for him. It reads 'Obama is coming' in Luo.

Meanwhile, some parts of Nairobi are eerily empty of cars.

Keep up with more updates from our BBC team in Nairobi on this live page., external

Obamatini anyone?

While waiting for President Obama to arrive in Kenya you could try this cocktail invented by the Juniper Gardens bar in the capital, Nairobi. It's a combination of arugula (or rocket), gin, lime nectar syrup and cucumber.

The BBC's Jackie Christie - who had the tough job of sipping the drink - says it's "refreshing and alternative".

Arugula, by the way, is thought to be one of the president's favourite vegetables.

The press are now all set up at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to capture the moment when President Obama touches down.

He should be landing at just after 17:00 GMT - so only a four-hour wait in store for the president's "homecoming" as it's being called in Kenya.

The team was on the Power Breakfast morning show today, speaking live on Citizen TV in Kenya. We're told this is one of the more popular morning programmes in the country. It was a very fun interview. And of course, we filmed it. More soon... 

The hashtag #SomeoneTellCNN, external has now been used 120,000 times on Twitter in under 24 hours after the US news organisation referred to Kenya as a "hotbed of terror" ahead of President Obama's visit this weekend. 

Here are some of the most popular posts on the story:

The BBC has had an exclusive interview in Nairobi with Barack and Michelle Obama two days before the US President even arrives in Kenya, courtesy of #thexyzshow and their rubberised view of political satire. 

Our friend Alastair Leithead asks the questions, and Edward Khaemba guesses what the president might say.

Image source, Reuters

Kenya's Interior Minister Joseph Nkaisserry has asked CNN to apologise after describing the East African country as a "terror hotbed" ahead of President Barack Obama's visit.

Kenyans on social media have reacted angrily to the US news channel's report, using the hashtag #SomeoneTellCNN on Twitter.

Mere hours before CNN's remarks, BBC Pop Up released a mini-documentary looking at the social media group, which also goes by the name #KOT. 

That video is below.

The US embassy in Kenya's capital has been tweeting about this weekend's visit of President Barack Obama:

On Thursday, it was announced that planes flying lower than 20,000 feet would be banned from flying over Nairobi during the three-day visit . 

The embassy reiterated that the US president was unlikely to travel to his father's ancestral home in the west of Kenya:

We were asked during our meet-up that we cover the story of Kenyans on Twitter, the social media group that goes by the hashtag #KOT, external .

The label is a wide one, referring generally to Kenyans on Twitter. Kenyans on Twitter have emerged in East Africa as a digital powerhouse – a group that can mobilise within hours for protest or help jokes trend globally. Their taste for content and trends is as wide as their users.

They organise under a myriad of hashtags, the most common of which is #KOT and the most recent of which is #KOTvsUOT, external . The latter was recently created as part of a "twar" or Twitter war. Twitter wars are quarrels that take place between Twitter users of two countries, where they square off against each other and post pictures and text playfully making fun of each other.

All this and more is covered in our most recent video above.

"How old are you Barack Obama?"

"Eight."

As President Obama's visit to Kenya gets closer, nowhere is excitement greater than in his father's home village, where President Obama's rise to power has had a big impact on local life.

Milton Nkosi visited "Obama land", external where children, schools and even some shop goods bear the famous name - and found two boys in a local school who were both named Barack Obama.