[Fred Nerks]

long, but might answer your question:

http://kennethelamb.blogspot.com/2008/02/barak-obama-questions-about-ethnic.html

[jamese777]

long, but might answer your question:

http://kennethelamb.blogspot.com/2008/02/barak-obama-questions-about-ethnic.html

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Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., was born in 1936 on the shores of Lake Victoria in Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya. His father, Hussein Onyango Obama (c. 1895-1979, buried at Alego), belonged to the Luo tribe and was born Onyango.
Kenya is in Africa. Indigenous Kenyans are not Arabs.

[Sherman Logan]

Researching his roots reveal that on his father's side, he is descended from Arab slave traders. They operated under an extended grant from Queen Victoria, who gave them the right to continue the slave trade in exchange for helping the British defeat the Madhi Army in southern Sudan and the Upper Nile region.

The believability of the article at your posted link is utterly invalidated by this single statement. I'll ignore its many and varied other idiocies.

No such document has ever been found, or ever will be found, since it never existed. It has been invented out of thin air by idiots such as the writer of this article.

The Mahdi Army was finally defeated in 1899. At that point the British army, navy and government had been continuously campaigning against slave trading for over 90 years. It was one of the few consistent policies followed by all British governments over this entire period. BTW, the US efforts against the slave trade were minimal, and often slavers hid behind the US flag to protect themselves against British search. Not our finest hour.

AAMOF, the Mahdist revolt itself in the Sudan was largely caused by British efforts to stamp out the slave trade there.

The idea that any Brit of the time, much less the Queen (!) would give anyone a license to continue slave trading is beyond parody.

[B4Ranch]

Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.