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NEWS ABOUT: Barack Obama Sr.

Barack Obama Sr. stories: 10 news summaries

 Inside Obama's 
 Extended Family 

Half-siblings, step-family of president are famous now

Nov 16, 09 11:14 AM CST
(Newser) - New York takes a look at President Obama’s far-flung—and now famous—family, complete with a handy PDF diagram and nicknames to help you remember who is who. George, the youngest half-brother, is arguably the (second) most famous, thanks to a minor drug arrest followed by a memoir... More »

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Barack Obama • Maya Soetoro-Ng • Barack Obama Sr. • George Obama • Sarah Obama • Obama family • Mark Odoth Obama Ndesandjo

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Obama's Half Bro Says Dad Beat Him, Mom

Autobiographical novel details abuse, doesn't mention president

Nov 4, 09 1:24 PM CST
(Newser) - For Mark Ndesandjo, Barack Obama is something of a monster. Not the president, but their father, Barack Obama Sr. Ndesandjo, full name Mark Odoth Obama Ndesandjo, has just released an autobiographical novel depicting the Obama patriarch as a brilliant-but-violent drunk who beat him and his Jewish-American mother, and while some... More »

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Barack Obama • autobiography • book • Barack Obama Sr. • Obama family • book deal • Mark Odoth Obama Ndesandjo

G8 Pledges $20B for Farmers in Poor Countries

In pushing for funds, Obama cites father's experience

Jul 10, 09 10:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - On the last day of a G8 summit stymied on climate change and trade, leaders have pledged $20 billion to farms in poor countries in the fight hunger, Reuters reports. Some $3.5 billion will come from the US, which wants to focus on farm aid instead of food aid.... More »

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international trade • Africa • Kenya • G8 summit • food aid • Obama administration • Barack Obama Sr. • President Obama • L'Aquila • poor countries • farm aid

 Obama: Absent Dad 
 Taught Me Value 
 of Fatherhood 

President's Father's Day essay urges father to 'step up' and take responsibility

Jun 19, 09 6:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama came to realize the value of fatherhood through its absence in his own life as a boy, he writes in an essay published in Parade for Father's Day. "The hole a man leaves when he abandons his responsibility to his children is one that no government can... More »

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Barack Obama • fatherhood • Father's Day • Malia Obama • Sasha Obama • Barack Obama Sr. • President Obama

 Obama Half-Bro 
 Clinches Book Deal 

Will write about journey from life of crime to life of advocacy

Jun 15, 09 8:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s half-brother will publish a memoir next year, in a book deal one official says is worth six figures, the AP reports. George Obama, 27, lives in Kenya and did not grow up with the president, but they share a passion for community organizing—an area George embraced... More »

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Barack Obama • memoir • Barack Obama Sr. • George Obama • book deal

Obama's Kenyan Clan Adjusts to Fame

Media, security forces, and opportunists descend on Kenyan village

Nov 22, 08 6:27 AM CST
(Newser) - The election of Barack Obama has changed the lives of his Kenyan relatives forever, the Los Angeles Times reports. Roughly 400 people in western Kenya can claim kinship to the president-elect, and the clan is attracting huge amounts of attention from the world's media and from fellow Kenyans. Their village... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • Barack Obama Sr. • Kogelo • President Obama

 Obama 'Auntie' 
 Lives in Boston 
 Public Housing 

Zeituni Onyango trying to stay out of campaign spotlight

Oct 30, 08 10:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Across town from Barack Obama’s Ivy League alma mater, his “Auntie Zeituni” has been living in a public-housing apartment decorated with photos of the Democrat. Zeituni Onyango—a tall, feisty woman Obama writes about meeting in Kenya—works for a stipend as a resident health advocate but made... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • Boston • presidential race • presidential candidates • Election 2008 • Barack Obama Sr.

Obama Is a Son of Hawaii, but a Man of Chicago

Island looms large among the forces that shaped him

Aug 23, 08 2:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hawaii and Chicago shaped the Barack Obama we know today in very different ways, David Maranis writes in a detailed look at the candidate's formative years in the Washington Post. Hawaii, multiracial but with its own social stratification, helped form the young Obama's outlook on life, but he found himself... More »

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Barack Obama • Chicago • Hawaii • Honolulu • Dreams From My Father • Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro • Barack Obama Sr.

Obama Brother Surfaces
in Britain

Kenyan Bernard
'so proud'
of candidate

Jul 26, 08 10:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s Kenyan half-brother Bernard has emerged in England after a British tabloid tracked him down. Bernard Obama told the Sun he was “proud of my brother” and said he was sure Barack would win the White House. “He will be a breath of fresh air for... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • family • brother • Britain • British tabloids • Barack Obama Sr.

Idealism Met Different End
for Obama Sr.

Kenya's graft drove Dem's father to drink, untimely death at 46

Jul 17, 08 4:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Like his candidate son, Barack Obama Sr. was charismatic, eloquent and idealistic, those who knew him say—so idealistic he was devastated by the corruption he saw in his native Kenya. The Harvard grad was so disillusioned upon his return to Africa, the Los Angeles Times reports, he turned to... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • alcoholism • Harvard • Barack Obama Sr. • disillusionment

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