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Her father had three wives so Mrs Obama never resented her husband’s polygamy, she said. “He was a good man. When he wanted to marry Ann he wrote back to ask us. In Kenya, a man can have several wives so I agreed with it. Later, when I met Ann she was like a sister to me...

The family are muslims, he may have had three wives, but he was entitled to have four if he could provide for them. It's not bigamy, it's polygamy.

And yes, it would be customary to ask current wives for permission as a courtesy.

Permission was given to enter a further polygamous marriage to someone the Kenya family names as Ann? That isn't conclusive as to who this further 'marriage' was to be WITH.

And just how was Kezia to know that the woman who 'was like a sister to me' was the same woman he had been given permission to marry?

The questions asked about Stanley Ann Dunham's trip to Kenya on the other thread, bgill and patlin, I will try to answer here:

No destination shown...and I do not recall what the source of this information was...

However, what is generally not known, is that the first trip to Kenya by zero was in 1983, not long after the kenyan was killed:

A Sunday Nation team that set out to trace Obama's roots was surprised to find that, unknown to many, Obama has actually been to this village twice. First in 1983, when he had come to mourn his late father, Barack Hussein Obama, who had died in Nairobi in 1982; and again in 1995 when he brought home his young bride to show her his roots.

Note: No source link posted HERE, FOR GOOD REASON. More and more links to articles our of Kenya are disappearing.