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To: BP2

Curiously...Obama Sr’s FATHER CONVERTED TO ISLAM IN ZANZIBAR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama,_Sr.

“...Barack Obama Sr. was the son of Habiba Akumu Nyanjango of Karabondi, Kenya, the second wife. However, he was raised by Onyango’s third wife, Sarah Ogwel of Kogelo, after Akumu left her family and separated from her husband in 1945.[3][10] Before working as a cook for missionaries in Nairobi, Onyango had travelled widely, enlisting in the British colonial forces and visiting Europe, India, and Zanzibar, where he converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam and took the name Hussein Onyango Obama...”

It’s from wiki...but


8,553 posted on 08/10/2009 7:39:08 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (DON'T LIE TO ME!)
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To: Fred Nerks; David; BP2; LucyT
Before working as a cook for missionaries in Nairobi

Now where have we heard about missionaries in Nairobi before....Wonder if the connection continued until the birth of Jrn?

8,557 posted on 08/10/2009 8:02:04 PM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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