“Barack (Sr) was also worried about what his father would think because I was so young, but he gave us his approval. He sent my mother and father 14 cows for my dowry.
“Barack’s father was only a cook so it was a big sacrifice. Very soon after, we were married.”
That was January 1957. Kezia and Barack Snr set up home in Jericho, a section of Nairobi created for government employees, and began a family.
First son Roy was born in March 1958. Kezia insisted: “Barack was a good husband.”
It was not long before Barack’s potential was noticed
By the summer of 1959, he was bound for Hawaii, leaving Kezia three months pregnant with Auma.
Kezia said: “I went with him to the airport. He gave me a cuddle and I was crying.”
“He said, ‘Bye bye, see you later when I come back.’”
Instead, Barack Sr met Barack Jr’s mother, Ann, in Honolulu. She was an 18-year-old fellow student from Kansas and within months they were united in what appears to have been a bigamist marriage.
Barack Jnr was born in August, 1961.
Two years later, Barack Snr was accepted at Harvard and left Ann and their little boy behind for the east coast.
Throughout this time he had written regularly to Kezia, even sending pictures of Ann and Barack Jr.
What he failed to tell his first wife was that he had also met a second new woman, an American teacher called Ruth.
Nor did he tell her, on his return to Kenya in 1965, that she had become his third wife.
Kezia said: “I’d moved to the family compound in Alego. When Barack got back, he came to see me and said, ‘I don’t have a job or a house yet. When I get settled I will come back for you.’”
But Barack Snr then lost both legs in a car crash coming back from a nightclub - and Kezia discovered the truth.
She said: “When I went to see him in the hospital I thought, ‘What is that lady in there with him for?’”
“Then Barack said: ‘This is Ruth.’ Next he turned to Ruth and said: ‘I have a wife and two children.’”
He continued to see Kezia and had son Abo with her in 1968, followed by Bernard in 1970.
Kindergarten head Ruth divorced Barack after seven years and now has the surname Ndesandjo.
I do not think Barack Sr and Stanley Ann were together much after Baby Barack was born. In fact Stanley Ann was in Seattle, Washington two weeks after giving birth, getting enrolled in extension courses at the University of Washington. Meanwhile, Barack Sr finished up his degree in economics at the University of Hawaii. Stanley Ann did go back to Hawaii but not until Barack Sr left for Harvard. I doubt they ever saw each other again.