Obamas half brother claims their shared father was physically abusive in explosive new book Mark Obama Ndesandjo also recounts his sporadic but intense encounters with his brother over the years in Cultures: My Odyssey of Self-Discovery.
The 500-page book includes an appendix listing a number of alleged factual errors in Obamas 1995 memoir, Dreams from my Father, such as quotes incorrectly attributed to Ndesandjos mother.
Its a correction. A lot of the stuff that Barack wrote is wrong in that book and I can understand that because to me for him the book was a tool for fashioning an identity and he was using composites, Ndesandjo said.
I wanted to bring it up because first of all I wanted the record to be straight. I wanted to tell my own story, not let people tell it for me, he said.
Oh boy...COMPOSITES! That wouldn’t go down too well.