Hmm - so, how did the unknown wife and son square with the readl BHO the second whom Malik grew up with? I’m a bit confused about that. Didn’t the clan in the village know about the real BHO who later morphed into Roman?
We can only work with that we have, books written about the family when they lived in Nairobi, tell us that there were so many people living in that house, Ruth says half the time she didn’t know their names.
Certainly, the boy the kenyan brought back with him from the US was living there, they called him ‘David’ by the sound of it, (couldn’t call him by what he was born with, not while zero is using the same name in the US,) and Malik and Auma were also there, plus some young cousins, not named, whom it’s stated that the kenyan was paying to educate...
As for the people in the village hundreds of miles away, if the children of Kezia were living with Ruth and their father in Nairobi, she was probably no longer there, it’s doubtful she would remain in the village on her own, and she did have two more children...to heaven knows whom.
The dark boy grows up, he attends high school, Malik drops it that ‘Barack taught school in Uganda’ - who was that? It wasn’t his father, his father worked for an oil company and then, much later, after Mboya was assassinated, then he was given a government job by the finance minister, who wasn’t appointed until 1970.
Sorry, but through all this, generally available material, the story becomes clear, but not if no one is paying attention. If you only read articles in the US papers or websites, you know next to nothing. There’s Google! There are websites with articles out of Kenya, and articles out of the UK, for example.
So the boy grew up, he was at least 22 when the old man was killed, he had been to Uganda, he had accepted a scholarship to the university in Moscow; he said himself, he was there for almost a decade when he was interviewed in 1992. He was out of sight and out of mind.
And to put paid to him, get him out of sight altogether, they ‘killed’ him in a motor cycle accident. And that’s the end of ‘David’ - and no matter how many people tried to find any trace of ‘David’ (and many did try) they could never find him, his birth year and death year vary according to the whims of the website you might see the name on.
One thing he can’t do.
He can’t come back. Not because he died in a motor cycle accident, but because he would be recognized. So he ends up in Ghana and adds Ekua to his name, which means ‘pushed or shoved aside’ in swahili, I’ve been told. Isn’t that classic?
There’s a paragraph in ‘Dreams’ that takes up the story, and explains the deception. Paraphrased:
Auma and zero are walking along a street, when they meet someone who says, Hello, you must be David...and zero or Auma explain, no, this isn’t David, poor David was killed, this is his brother from America...who looked so much like him that the man thought it was ‘David’.
If you can’t see through that, I have a number of bridges going real cheap.
PS. Remember ‘granny’ Sarah saying “even the President of the United States passed though my hands...”?
They even fooled granny. I bet she’s woken up since. Just like Neil Abercrombie. Even Neil has to know by now that Anna Obama wasn’t Stanley Ann Dunham.