“Even Kezia sent her brood to be looked after by Ruth and her husband.”
There were only two at that time. Auma was in boarding school the whole time, IIRC. So only one son, Malik, was in the home, IIRC.
I believe that Maraniss said that he was the only author that got any significant interview time with Ruth and she did not give him the description that you recount of their home being overrun, from what I remember reading that section of the book before I returned it.
The way Ruth described it, the first year it was party hearty, dancing and drinking almost every night.
I know what I read, she said the house was filled with people and children coming and going, and often she didn’t know their names. If I find it again I will post it. There have been at least three books written that I am aware of.
I’m getting a clear message from you, if I said the sky was blue, you would say purple.
And you deliberately misdirect, I wrote Kezia’s brood, I didn’t say how many. If Ruth didn’t know who she was passing in the hallway, you’re asking too much of me. Two, four or six, even ‘granny’ Sarah didn’t know who Kezia’s children belonged to.
You know what? It’s becoming very obvious you bring nothing of note to the discussion, it’s just criticism all the way, from start to finish, isn’t it? Why don’t you surprise us and tell us something new? Show us a documents or an image, or even provide a link, like most freepers do.
You aren’t communicating, what you are doing is telling us how superior and clever you are.
I’m simply not buying it. This isn’t The World According To Seizethecarp.
"...he had taken his first cousin Ezra under his wing. Ezra was a clever and amusing boy whose father, one of Hussein Onyango's brothers, was unable to pay for this son's schooling. So Ezra moved into the squat servants quarters in 1967 and remained there for four years while Obama paid for his education. He was not alone. When Wilson Obama, another cousin showed up in similar need, Obama agreed to pay for his education and offered him a place to stay for close to two years. Amir Otieno Orinda, Obama's half-brother with whom he shared the same mother, was in and out of the house as well. Zeituni Onyango, Obama's helf-sister, stayed at the house for several weeks in the late 60's and would return later to help take care of Malik and Auma. As those and others came and went from the busy household, Ruth sometimes found herself passing people in the hall-way, who, she says, I hadn't the slightest idea who they were...
The Other Barack:
The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father By Sally Jacobs