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So when did Ann's and Obama Sr.'s "whatever happened happened fast" wedding happen? For no apparent reason, confusion abounds among Obama's biographers over the wedding date: 1. Dreams claims that Ann and Obama Sr. were in married "in 1960"; similarly, Mendell's 2007 book claims that the couple were married "sometime in late 1960" when they "slipped off alone to the island of Maui"; and both Obamaland (2008) by Ron Jacobs (with contributor David Maraniss) and a 2007 Washington Post article claim that the two were married "late in 1960." 2. A 2007 Chicago Tribune article vaguely claims that Ann and...

President Barack Obama places "politics before family," his Kenya-born half-brother Mark Obama Ndesandjo said in an exclusive Newsmax interview. And when the two men first met, the man who went on to be president appeared to be acting "too black" for his African-raised sibling. "When we met in '88 he was very much influenced by African nationalists and also at the same time had strong opinions about the roles of independence," Ndesandjo said on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV. Ndesandjo, whose book "Cultures: My Odyssey of Self-Discovery" explores the complicated relationship between the brothers, said the first time...

Mark Obama Ndesandjo discusses his new book with INSIDE EDITION, in which he details his relationship with his half-brother, President Barack Obama. [Video at link]

Back in 1988, an American guy showed up at Mark Obama Ndesandjo's home in Kenya and revealed that he was his long-lost older brother, Barack Obama. Presumably, that first meeting was pretty awkward – especially since Mark's mom married Barack Obama Sr. just a few months after divorcing the future president's mom – and it seems Ndesandjo has been trying to get back at his older brother ever since. In 2008, Ndesandjo surprised Obama just before a debate with Hillary Clinton, but he was only mildly uncomfortable. Now he's taken things up a notch by releasing a home movie of...

The Ivy-League educated half-brother of President Obama is publishing his autobiography in which he makes the shocking claim their father dished out alcohol-fueled beatings to him and his mother and in one terrifying instance held a knife to her throat. Mark Obama Ndesandjo, 48, also uses his new book to set the U.S. president straight on inaccuracies he claims exist in his best-selling 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father and confirms they have never seen eye-to-eye because 'Barack thought I was too white and I thought he was too black.' --SNIP-- The 500-page book includes an appendix listing a number...

"...................The book recounts Ndesandjo's first encounter with Obama, who was visiting Kenya in 1988. They did not hit it off. "Barack thought I was too white and I thought he was too black," Ndesandjo said. "He was an American searching for his African roots, I was a Kenyan, I'm an American but I was living in Kenya, searching for my white roots." The 500-page book includes an appendix listing a number of alleged factual errors in Obama's 1995 memoir, "Dreams from my Father," such as quotes incorrectly attributed to Ndesandjo's mother. "It's a correction. A lot of the stuff that...

<p>I guess that being a 'Citizen of the World' has hidden relatives all over the world.</p> <p>BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama took time out of his busy diplomatic schedule in China to meet with his half-brother, who lives in the southern part of the country -- but only for five minutes.</p>

U.S. President Barack Obama says he took five minutes out of his busy overseas diplomatic schedule to meet a half-brother who lives in China. Mr. Obama told a U.S. television network that he met Mark Ndesandjo and his wife briefly Monday in Beijing, where the U.S. president held meetings with Chinese leaders this week. The president has the same Kenyan father as Ndesandjo, who recently published a book, Nairobi to Shenzhen, describing Barack Obama Sr. as abusive. President Obama said he does not know his half-brother very well. He said it was not a secret that his father was a...

EIJING — When President Barack Obama landed in Beijing on Monday on his first state visit to China, his first order of business was family business. Before he headed to a formal dinner with China's President Hu Jintao, he set aside time to see his half brother, Mark Ndesandjo, and Ndesandjo's wife, who had flown up from the southern boomtown of Shenzhen where they live. Describing the meeting Monday as "overwhelming" and "intense," Ndesandjo told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that he had long anticipated the chance to welcome his famous brother to China. "My big brother, you...

The China-based brother of U.S. President Barack Obama is about to pubU.S. President Barack Obama's half-brother, Mark Ndesandjo, says he plans to publish an autobiography in a few months' time giving more details about their relationship. "In a few months I hope to produce an autobiography which I think will answer some of the questions," Ndesandjo said in an interview on the eve of Obama's first state visit to China. lish his own memoir.

US President Barack Obama will meet his half-brother Mark Ndesandjo and his sister-in-law during his first official visit to China. Ndesandjo and his Chinese wife set off for Beijing on Friday from their home in Shenzhen - a southern city neighbouring Hong Kong - to prepare for Obama's arrival, a spokeswoman for AmCham in South China said. "It will be the first time for Mark to introduce his wife to President Obama," the spokeswoman said. Ndesandjo told China's state-run Xinhua news agency that he wanted his wife, who is from the central eastern province of Henan, to meet the US...

As President Barack Obama begins his China visit, his half brother who lives there reveals that when he was a child their father was a violent drunk The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is a world away from Washington DC. The booming border town and the staid American capital are both home to members of the Obama family. That, though, is where the similarities end, because while Barack Obama resides in the splendour of the White House and is perhaps the most recognisable person on the planet, his younger half-brother Mark lives anonymously in a rented two-bedroom flat in Shenzhen's...

“DREAMS OF MY VIOLENT DRUNKARD FATHER” thelastcrusade.org Our alcoholic father beat me, says Barack Obama's half brother, Mark As the US President arrives in China, Barack Obama's half brother reveals that when he was a child their father was a violent drunk Telegraph & News Sources On the eve of his older sibling's first-ever visit to China, Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo has emerged from the shadows to reveal the disturbing truth about the late Barack Obama Sr, his and President Obama's father.Last week, Mr Ndesandjo published an autobiographical novel, Nairobi to Shenzhen: A Tale of Love In The East....

Click below and read the caption. There's so little we can't even excerpt enough without doing it all. Says that the Chinese didn't provide a photo of him. That he prefers to remain a secret. Weird. Just another weird Obama moment. Click Here for photo showing wife, but not the half brother

SHENZHEN, China – The news release didn't say who Mark Ndesandjo was. Nor did the posters and e-mails promoting the concert Friday in this southern Chinese boomtown where he played piano to raise money for orphans. But the 200 or so people who showed up for the fundraiser at a posh hotel resort knew the man in a Chinese-style brown silk shirt was the half brother of President-elect Barack Obama. They had a rare encounter with Ndesandjo, who has been dodging the media since his family ties were made public last summer. For the past seven years, Ndesandjo has been...