[Girlene]

Here's a photo from a trip in 1987, Why Obama Wept For His Father



By the time he arrived in Kenya in 1987 for a month-long visit prior to moving to Boston to begin law school, Barack Obama had already learned some surprising truths about his father from his half sister Auma.

During an earlier visit to Chicago, she had told Obama that she and her brother Roy were born before their father left for Hawaii in 1959 and were living with their mother in Kogelo when he returned from America with a new wife, a white woman named Ruth. ............

[El Gato]

Here's a photo from a trip in 1987, Why Obama Wept For His Father

Might be the same as 1988 trip reported elsewhere. These dates seem awfully "flexible". Either that or he made a lot of trips to Africa in his 20s.

But I don't think I'd put much stock in that article. It's just dripping with praise for Obama and his family, and takes pot shots at the British, the other tribes of Kenya, and just about everyone not a Luo tribe member.

However, one interesting section says:

Dorsila, who spoke only Luo, listened nonetheless as Obama and Auma’s “Granny”, the same step-grandmother, now in her eighties, who Senator Obama and his wife and children met with in the summer of 2006, shared the oral history of their family.

This implies that the conversation with Granny Sarah was in some language other than Luo, which means it probably was either in English, or Swahili with someone interpreting for The Messiah, both official languages of Kenya, and with most people speaking at least Swahili in addition to their tribal language. In this case Luo, aka Dholuo (as Swahili is Kiswahili, in the Swahili language). That kind of pokes a hole in the theory that Grandma Sarah doesn't speak Swahili/Kiswahili, which some have used to discredit this "affidavit".