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Adding to the growing list of books about President Barack Obama and his family is a new memoir by his sister who was raised in Africa. Auma Obama, who now works at CARE International in Nairobi, didn't meet Barack until the 1980s and it's unclear how much new ground the book breaks. But she did have an interesting vantage point: that of the Obama family in Africa and how her brother's political career impacted it. In published excerpts of "And Then Life Happens," she wrote about meeting Hillary Clinton after the nasty primary race in 2008 and the media frenzy...

Nairobi (AFP) - President Barack Obama's Kenyan grandmother, known as Mama Sarah, vowed Friday to cook a traditional meal for her grandson when he visits the East African nation, the birthplace of his father, later this month. "With regards to what food I will prepare for Barack on his visit, I will prepare all the traditional food available," she said, speaking her Luo language through a translator on a visit to Nairobi. She tempted him with the offer of dishes including fish, chicken and maize porridge.

Ouch. Not only was Donald Trump’s bombshell NOT about the Obama family’s Wahhabist fundraising empire but it fell woefully short. When someone tells you he has a bombshell that could turn the election, it needs to be something more than a proposal that will never be accepted. Ah, but wait a minute. In Trump’s “major” announcement (video below), he pledged to cut Barack Obama a check for $5 million to a charity of the president’s choice. Isn’t the Mama Sarah Children Foundation a charity? Barack Obama’s step-grandmother – along with countless Kenyan students who could then go to Saudi Arabia...