[Fred Nerks]

David Opiyo Obama

BARACKOBAMAFOUNDATION LINK

Photo: David Opiyo Obama (1968-1984), son of Barack H. Obama and baby brother of Abon'go Malik Obama.

HALF-BROTHER DAVID 'Everybody's favorite'

September 9, 2007

BY SCOTT FORNEK Political Editor David Obama was Barack Obama's other half-brother from the marriage of their father and an American woman named Ruth. David Obama was killed in a motorcycle accident before Barack Obama's 1987 visit to Kenya.

" 'He became everybody's favorite,' " Obama's half sister Auma tells him in Dreams From My Father. "'He was so sweet, you know, and funny, even if he was sometimes too wild. . . . His death broke everybody's heart.' "

'FAMILY TREE' LINK

...A bit of digging reveals that it is pretty tough to find when Obama’s half-brother David Ndesandjo died; some sites put it at 1987. So in the span of several pages, we have an anedote from 1983 (when Obama tells the guard he is 22), his half-brother’s death (at age 25-26?), and a reference to Kemp (which couldn’t have happened before Obama was 28).

JACK KEMP NATIONAL REVIEW LINK

Personal and Family Information David Ndesandjo was born ABT 1967 in Kenya. He died ABT 1987 in Kenya. He was the son of 2nd husband Nidesand and Ruth Ndesandjo.

PEDIGREE DAVID.LINK

IMAGES SCREENCAPS FROM MARK INTERVIEW CNN VIDEO LINK

Family This image is of Mark and his late brother David Opiyo (left). Mark dedicated his novel Nairobi to Shenzhen to the memory of David.

MARK NDESANJO WEBPAGE LINK

After placing the two side by side, I am beginning to think that the toddler image we have been led to believe was of zero...was 'David' all along:

...and the reason for the 'confusion' regarding when he 'died' may have been created by the NEED to hide zero's first visit to Kenya shortly after the 'old man' died in 1982.

So...who is the child Stanley Ann is supposedly holding in this image...or do we have ANOTHER example of being in two places at the same time?

PS. Presented for your interest and speculation only, I have no answers! Feel free to add any theory you like...there is only ONE IMAGE of 'David' as a youth and that could be anyone...I am particularly interested in theories as to how one child could be so much lighter in skin colour than the other...if that child had the same parents...

[LucyT]

. . . . Keeping up.

Check out this entire page, w photos, esp # 114 , # 117 , and # 124 , # 125.

[Thanks for the pings. They're always helpful.... - one evening I went out to dinner for about two hours, and came home to discover nineteen (19) new pings. Whew.]

[Greenperson]

But wait! Didn’t Auma also say that Barry quickly became Granny Sarah’s favorite? Whoops.

In addition, in his book, Barry says Auma cancelled her trip to visit him in NY, planning to come in from Heidelberg, where she was going to college, but then David died. Barry was still in NY when David died. If he did. If any of it is true.

[bgill]

I am particularly interested in theories as to how one child could be so much lighter in skin colour than the other...if that child had the same parents...

While most times the children of mixed parentage are about the same color, however sometimes one may be significantly lighter or darker than the others. It just depends on the recessive/dominant genes. Of course, that still doesn't take away from me falling off my chair when you first showed me that toddler photo a long time ago.

Another interesting coincidence is out of all the tribe, it's David and Hussein who have that certain charisma. Then there's those "scars" on Hussein's head. Combine that with the villager mistaking Hussein for David OPIYO and what have you got? Probably nothing but it's still curious.

[GatorGirl]

The same reason two parents can have a towheaded blonde and a dark haired child—it’s all in the genes. My kids are an example—one has the dark hair and eyes of my Hispanic husband but my lily white skin and the other has my light hair and eyes but my husband’s darker skin.