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It was into this maelstrom of events that Barack Obama Snr launched himself into the real world. He had decided that he must leave Maseno school, fearing that he might be linked to (an) anonymous letter sent to the principal. In his fury and disappointment with his son, Hussein Onyango banished him to work in Mombasa. After working briefly as a clerk in another office in Mombasa, Barack moved to Nairobi.
When Barack arrived in Nairobi in 1955, he was 19 years old, and he found a temporary job working for the Kenya Railway. This was still at the height of the Mau Mau emergency, and Nairobi was a hotbed of political action. Barack began to take an interest in politics, and one evening the following year he was attending a Kenya African Union meeting that was raided by the police. He was among those arrested and charged with violating the meeting law.
According to his friend Leo Odera, Barack was released after his white employer in Nairobi gave the authorities reassurance that his social and political activities were unconnected with Mau Mau.
Leo Odera recalled how Barack Snr met his first wife:
‘In Nairobi, Barack Obama Snr became a frequent visitor to his Kanyadhiang’ roots, and here is when he came into contact with two young girls, whom he had known whilst learning at Gendia SDA Mission [primary school]. One of the girls was called Mical Anyango, daughter of Mr Joram Osano, a local pastor. The other girl was the seventeen-year-old Kezia Nyandega.’
“I remember escorting him to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, then known as Embakasi airport,” she says.
“He asked me to take care of our only child then, Malik Abongo, who was six years old. I was pregnant with our second child — Rita Auma.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362788/posts
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That is a great link. If provides more investigative leads into the people behind BHO Sr.’s arrival in Hawaii from Kenya in 1959:
“During his time in Nairobi in the mid-1950s, Obama watched as his old school friends from Maseno went on to study at university in Uganda and even London. Sarah Obama claims that two American women befriended him and helped him take a correspondence course, which would give him the school certificate he needed to move on.
“One of the women instrumental in Barack’s successful application for a scholarship was Helen Roberts from California, who was living in Nairobi at the time; another was Jane Kiano, the wife of Dr Julius Gikonyo Kiano. Dr Kiano was the first Kenyan to gain a US doctorate (from Stanford University) and he played an important political role in the years running up to Kenyan independence, and also in higher education for Kenyans. Kiano later became closely involved with Mboya in organising the student airlifts to the USA.
“When the President’s father left Nairobi in 1959, Kezia was three months pregnant with her second child Auma, and she came to the airport for a tearful parting. When Barack arrived at the University at M-anoa in the summer of 1959 he was just twenty-three years old; he was the first black African student at the university, and inevitably he became the focus of great curiosity on campus. As he started his classes in mathematics and economics in September, he must have reflected how far he had come from a mud hut in K’ogelo.
“It was not until the following year that Barack met Ann, the eighteen-year-old freshman student who would become the mother of the 44th President of the United States of America. Ann Dunham had only started attending classes at the university in September 1960, and she and Obama enrolled on the same Russian-language class.”
While checking out some old comments I ran across this link and want to say thank you, in case I forgot! Seems I might have missed reading it, and it sure is interesting...