There's still something seriously wrong with the Ruth Ndesandjo story imo, not with the T.o.u.t.o.n.g.h.i. background, we now know Mary Zolin lived in Hollywood, which is where she went to school with the children of Bob Hope (she says) and that's where the eldest, Mary-Agnes was living, she married the geologist Oskar Franz Van Beveren in Heliopolis in 1944. The remainder of that family arrived in 1946, two years after Mary-Agnes. They embarked in Cairo.
Ruta, the second wife of Joseph was definitely Latvian:
PAULS WRITES, beautiful story.
It's the wiki revisions that Sally Jacobs made a few days before her book on the student from kenya was released, that are a surprise. No mention of where the family of Ruth came from, that she was from a Lithuanin Jewish family of refugees has disappeared, and instead of the family name of NIDZON, we have BAKER:
One has to wonder where the original surname—Nidesand—came from. Suddenly, she’s Ruth Baker.
You know, that happens in most families doesn’t it? People’s names change. People have various aliases. Barry Soetoro. Barack Hussein Obama II. Steve Dunham. Ruth Nidesand. Ruth Baker. Shirley Ann Dunham. Anna Obama. Ann Dunham. Malik. Roy. Sadik. Bernard. Onyango. Omar.