Te newspaper article guy - Roman Obama - was born in 1961, then. (And just where in the august 0bama family tree does this little branch fit, eh?)
I sort of figured in the newspaper photo - IIRC that’s when it says he was or had been at Patrice Lumumba Friendship University looked older than his actual age in the photo due to distortions in the image and perhaps he was quite overweight at the time.
Lumumga U being the one that trains or did train people from third world countries to become communist revolutionaries in their home turf; and IIRC Raila Odinga or one of that crew (Obongo Odinga? Sheesh I can’t remember their names) also when to the Lumumba U. I have wondered if Zero went there some of the time he was (supposedly?) at Columbia, perhaps some study abroad connection with Columbia. I remember reading an article or two about how students would often to that, study abroad while officially under the auspices of Columbia.
I don’t think Roman and Zero are the same person, they don’t look at all alike. But there has to be some strange connection.
Just my thoughts.
The son of OGINGA ODINGA, Raila, the now-Prime Minister of Keyna, for whom zero campaigned in Kenya in 2006, I believe studied at a university in East Germany. It was his brother, named after Fidel Castro, who attended Lumumba University in Moscow.
Here we are GOOGLE:
http://www.jaluo.com/wangwach/200710/Leo_Odera_Omolo102507d.html
“...Raila studied in East Germany and graduated from Otto Von Guericke Technical University, Magdeburg in 1970, with a Msc degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Agwambo returned home to jointly take care of the Odinga family with his elder brother Dr. Oburu Odinga who had earlier graduated with a PhD degree in political Science and Economics at the Lumumba University in Moscow in the former USSR...”
...We turned down the street and passed the Hotel Tropic which would some years later, offer me refuge from a violent coup-de-tat. We found our way into a second-floor apartment building that, for Kenya, was probably considered upper middle class. However, the apartment was grim.
Despite the rough ambiance, the Luo man who greeted us was quite impressive as he stood, his broad, Luo face smiling. He offered us his hand. Three warm bottles of Fanta orange drink sat on a side table along with three filmy glasses.
The man was a believer. And he was on fire with his belief. We sat on a thread-bare sofa in an apartment that overlooked the Jevanji Gardens. The scent of curry and vindaloo competed with the offerings of charcoal braziers full of corn on the street below.
Odinga sat on the edge of his chair and leaned forward, facing Joe and I. He told us of his visit to America and how American Freedom Fighters--civil rights activists had secretly visited with him in Atlanta as he was under State Department security control. He told us how the famous American Freedom Fighter, Malcom X had embraced him (Odinga) and that there was even a song written in America called, "Oginga Odinga of Kenya."