By local standards it is a vast well kept compound with Sarah's battered brick house sitting imposingly at the far end.
Two cemented graves, one for Barack Obama Snr and the other for his father Mzee Hussein Onyango Obama, who was born in 1870 but died in 1975.
The Obama family are among the few Muslims in the locality.
Mecca, 25 Nov. (AKI) - The grandmother of US president Barack Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the ‘Hajj’ or Islamic pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, a Saudi daily said on Wednesday. Sarah Obama, 87, is being accompanied by a nephew and Obama’s cousin, Omran.
On Wednesday Sarah Obama was in the valley of Mina with an African delegation, according to the Saudi daily Okaz.
Obama, the mother of the American president’s father, lives in a village in Kenya and is one of the many guests of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud....
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/11/obamas-christian-grandmother-in-mecca-for-hajj.html
(Sarah isn’t obama’s grandmother, she’s one of the wives of Onyango Obama, Obama Senior’s mother was named Akumu, who ‘ran away and married a man in Tanzania’ if you can believe that...
And the man they refer to as Mzee (old man) Hussein Onyango Obama is elsewhere shown as being born in 1885, not 1870, which would have made him the unlikely age of 105 when he died...