Obama, the African Colonial

American Thinker ^ | June 25, 2009 | L.E. Ikenga

[neverdem]

Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama's skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a cultural and political mindset rooted in postcolonial Africa.

Like many educated intellectuals in postcolonial Africa, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was enraged at the transformation of his native land by its colonial conqueror. But instead of embracing the traditional values of his own tribal cultural past, he embraced an imported Western ideology, Marxism. I call such frustrated and angry modern Africans who embrace various foreign "isms", instead of looking homeward for repair of societies that are broken, African Colonials. They are Africans who serve foreign ideas.

The tropes of America's racial history as a way of understanding all things black are useless in understanding the man who got his dreams from his father, a Kenyan exemplar of the African Colonial.

Before I continue, I need to say this: I am a first generation born West African-American woman whose parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970's from the country now called Nigeria. I travel to Nigeria frequently. I see myself as both a proud American and as a proud Igbo (the tribe that we come from -- also sometimes spelled Ibo). Politically, I have always been conservative (though it took this past election for me to commit to this once and for all!); my conservative values come from my Igbo heritage and my place of birth. Of course, none of this qualifies me to say what I am about to -- but at the same time it does.

My friends, despite what CNN and the rest are telling you, Barack Obama is nothing more than an old school African Colonial who is on his way to turning this country into one of the developing nations that you learn about on the National Geographic Channel. Many conservative (East, West, South, North) African-Americans like myself -- those of us who know our history -- have seen this movie before. Here are two main reasons why many Americans allowed Obama to slip through the cracks despite all of his glaring inconsistencies:

First, Obama has been living on American soil for most of his adult life. Therefore, he has been able to masquerade as one who understands and believes in American democratic ideals. But he does not. Barack Obama is intrinsically undemocratic and as his presidency plays out, this will become more obvious. Second, and most importantly, too many Americans know very little about Africa. The one-size-fits-all understanding that many Americans (both black and white) continue to have of Africa might end up bringing dire consequences for this country.

Contrary to the way it continues to be portrayed in mainstream Western culture, Africa is not a continent that can be solely defined by AIDS, ethnic rivalries, poverty and safaris. Africa, like any other continent, has an immense history defined by much diversity and complexity. Africa's long-standing relationship with Europe speaks especially to some of these complexities -- particularly the relationship that has existed between the two continents over the past two centuries. Europe's complete colonization of Africa during the nineteenth century, also known as the Scramble for Africa, produced many unfortunate consequences, the African colonial being one of them.

The African colonial (AC) is a person who by means of their birth or lineage has a direct connection with Africa. However, unlike Africans like me, their worldviews have been largely shaped not by the indigenous beliefs of a specific African tribe but by the ideals of the European imperialism that overwhelmed and dominated Africa during the colonial period. AC's have no real regard for their specific African traditions or histories.  AC's use aspects of their African culture as one would use pieces of costume jewelry: things of little or no value that can be thoughtlessly discarded when they become a negative distraction, or used on a whim to decorate oneself in order to seem exotic. (Hint: Obama's Muslim heritage).

On the other hand, AC's strive to be the best at the culture that they inherited from Europe. Throughout the West, they are tops in their professions as lawyers, doctors, engineers, Ivy League professors and business moguls; this is all well and good. It's when they decide to engage us as politicians that things become messy and convoluted.

The African colonial politician (ACP) feigns repulsion towards the hegemonic paradigms of Western civilization. But at the same time, he is completely enamored of the trappings of its aristocracy or elite culture. The ACP blames and caricatures whitey to no end for all that has gone wrong in the world. He convinces the masses that various forms of African socialism are the best way for redressing the problems that European colonialism motivated in Africa. However, as opposed to really being a hard-core African Leftist who actually believes in something, the ACP uses socialist themes as a way to disguise his true ambitions: a complete power grab whereby the "will of the people" becomes completely irrelevant.

Barack Obama is all of the above. The only difference is that he is here playing (colonial) African politics as usual.  

In his 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father -- an eloquent piece of political propaganda -- Obama styles himself as a misunderstood intellectual who is deeply affected by the sufferings of black people, especially in America and Africa. In the book, Obama clearly sees himself as an African, not as a black American. And to prove this, he goes on a quest to understand his Kenyan roots. He is extremely thoughtful of his deceased father's legacy; this provides the main clue for understanding Barack Obama.

Barack Obama Sr. was an African colonial to the core; in his case, the apple did not fall far from the tree. All of the telltale signs of Obama's African colonialist attitudes are on full display in the book -- from his feigned antipathy towards Europeans to his view of African tribal associations as distracting elements that get in the way of "progress".  (On p. 308 of Dreams From My Father, Obama says that African tribes should be viewed as an "ancient loyalties".)

Like imperialists of Old World Europe, the ACP sees their constituents not as free thinking individuals who best know how to go about achieving and creating their own means for success. Instead, the ACP sees his constituents as a flock of ignorant sheep that need to be led -- oftentimes to their own slaughter.

Like the European imperialist who spawned him, the ACP is a destroyer of all forms of democracy.

Here are a few examples of what the British did in order to create (in 1914) what is now called Nigeria and what Obama is doing to you: 

1. Convince the people that "clinging" to any aspect of their cultural (tribal) identity or history is bad and regresses the process of "unity". British Imperialists deeply feared people who were loyal to anything other than the state. "Tribalism" made the imperialists have to work harder to get people to just fall in line. Imperialists pitted tribes against each other in order to create chaos that they then blamed on ethnic rivalry. Today many "educated" Nigerians, having believed that their traditions were irrelevant, remain completely ignorant of their ancestry and the history of their own tribes.
2. Confiscate the wealth and resources of the area that you govern by any means necessary in order to redistribute wealth. The British used this tactic to present themselves as empathetic and benevolent leaders who wanted everyone to have a "fair shake". Imperialists are not interested in equality for all. They are interested in controlling all.  
3. Convince the masses that your upper-crust university education naturally puts you on an intellectual plane from which to understand everything even when you understand nothing. Imperialists were able to convince the people that their elite university educations allowed them to understand what Africa needed. Many of today's Nigerians-having followed that lead-hold all sorts of degrees and certificates-but what good are they if you can't find a job?   
4. Lie to the people and tell them that progress is being made even though things are clearly becoming worse.  One thing that the British forgot to mention to their Nigerian constituents was that one day, the resources that were being used to engineer "progress" (which the British had confiscated from the Africans to begin with!) would eventually run out. After WWII, Western Europe could no longer afford to hold on to their African colonies. So all of the counterfeit countries that the Europeans created were then left high-and-dry to fend for themselves. This was the main reason behind the African independence movements of the1950 and 60's. What will a post-Obama America look like?
5. Use every available media outlet to perpetuate the belief that you and your followers are the enlightened ones-and that those who refuse to support you are just barbaric, uncivilized, ignorant curmudgeons.  This speaks for itself.

America, don't be fooled. The Igbos were once made up of a confederacy of clans that ascribed to various forms of democratic government. They took their eyes off the ball and before they knew it, the British were upon them. Also, understand this: the African colonial who is given too much political power can only become one thing: a despot.

L.E. Ikenga can be reached at leikenga@gmail.com.

[Fred Nerks]

ROMAN OBAMA-V-BARACK OBAMA

...This piece of information provided another piece to the puzzle, as numerous articles have reported that some 500 Columbia university students from the same graduation year were questioned and didn’t remember Mr. Obama as a student at Columbia, however at the same time there was an article published in Seattle, Washington, regarding one, Roman Obama, an exchange student from Equatorial Guinea (same origin listed in Mr. Obama’s immigration records) studying in the university of Patrice Lumumba in Moscow. (this university was known as a basis of heavy Communist indoctrination and rumored to be the hunting ground of communist recruiting by the KGB). This university is very similar to the university of Karl Marx, attended by Mr. Obama’s cousin, current prime minister of Kenya Raela Odinga.

QUESTION: WHO WAS BORN IN EQUATORIAL GUINEA ON JANUARY 8, 1961?

[Fred Nerks]

WHO IS ‘UNCLE OMAR’ AND WHEN DID HE ARRIVE IN THE US?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5042571.ece

EXCERPT:

Uncle Omar, by contrast, remains a mysterious figure who left for America and never came back. At one point in the book a half-sister tells Mr Obama that people “like our Uncle Omar, in Boston” move to the West.

“They promise to return after completing school. They say they’ll send for the family once they get settled. At first they write once a week. Then it’s just a month. Then they stop writing completely. No one sees them again.”

~SNIP

Nelson Ochieng, a cousin of Mr Obama who lives in the Kenyan city of Kisumu, near the family village of Kogelo, said that Omar had changed his first name after moving to the US. “Before he went to America we all knew him as Omar, but he dropped that bit, changing it to Obama Onyango, because he said he preferred his African name,” he said. Gail Greenberger, the landlady who bought the four-storey brick block of flats at a foreclosure sale in 1994, knew her tenant, however, by the name Obama Onyango.

~SNIP

“Mr Onyango was a business partner in a “convenience store” called the Wells Market at 1760 Dorchester Avenue, now a Hispanic bodega, or grocery. Records list him as the treasurer of the corporation, which was set up without his name in 1992 and involuntarily wound up in 2007 after failing to file annual reports since 1997.

In 1994 Obama Onyango was attacked in an armed robbery at the Wells Market, the Boston Herald reported. According to a police report, two masked black males entered the store around 9.30pm on June 7, 1994...

ZABASEARCH

OBAMA ONYANGO
24 COLGATE RD Record Created: 04/2001
ROSLINDALE, MA 02131 Confirm Current Phone & Address
Background Check on OBAMA ONYANGO

[Fred Nerks]

link

October 30, 2008

Found in a rundown Boston estate: Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango 'Auntie Zeituni', who, with Uncle Omar, dropped out of sight after moving to the US, is backing the presidential candidate from her modest flat...

She is a frail woman who walks with the aid of a metal stick. Neighbours said that she lived alone in a ground-floor flat normally set aside for people facing physical hardship.

UPDATE:

[thouworm]

FRED NERKS: I extracted some “facts” from the article you linked (rearranged and added a few). As usual, story lines makes little sense and “facts” conflict.

BTW, I seem to remember an article (only one) that said a brother of Obama Sr followed him to the United States.
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Article dated October 30, 2008 (see post #502 for link)

Obama Sr was born to Hussein Onyango Obama (1895–1979) and Akumu Habiba in 1936.

[OMAR] O. Onyango Obama [Obama Onyango] was born to Hussein Onyango Obama and “Granny” on June 3, 1944.

Zeituni Onyango was born to Hussein Onyango Obama and “Granny” on May 29, 1952.

“Granny” raised Obama Sr when his biological mother, Akumu, left her family.

1962 - Obama Sr. began studies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and graduated in 1965.

In his book Mr Obama writes that “Uncle Omar” had gone missing after moving to Boston in the 1960s

Pres. Obama began studies at Harvard in 1989 and graduated in 1991.

Obama Onyango was a business partner in a “convenience store” called the Wells Market. Records list Onyango as the treasurer of the corporation “set up without his name in 1992.”

Lucy Tenende, wife of Lennard Tenende, was secretary to the shop.

Dershaye Geresu is the Ethiopian-born president of Wells Market Inc. [It is not clear to me if Geresu was president of the original corporation involving Omar].

Records list Onyango as the treasurer of the corporation, which was set up without his name in 1992 and involuntarily wound up in 2007 after failing to file annual reports since 1997.

On June 7, 1994 Obama Onyango was attacked in an armed robbery at the Wells Market.

Ms Greenberger [owner of property since 1994] said she inherited him with the building but was forced to evict him in 2000 for nonpayment of his rent of about $500 a month. “I remember him being decent but I think he lost his job. When they lose their job, they just stop paying rent. He did not even go to court. He bolted from the apartment,” she said.

Records of Boston Housing Court show a “summary process” was executed against Mr Onyango on February 23, 2000, for unpaid rent of $2,324.70.

As to [Omar] Obama Onyango’s current whereabouts, Lennard Tenende said, “I don’t know where he is. It seems as if he is getting a lot of inquiries, a lot of people trying to find him and find out about his relationship with Obama and he just doesn’t want to be found.” Mr Ochieng said that he believed Mr Onyango ran a chain of stores.
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Zeituni came to the US in approx 2000 as a computer programmer to find work. (according to BHO, Sr’s youngest son George). “Ms Onyango ... said: “I have been coming to America ever since 1975. I always come and go.” “

AP press story on May 25, 2003, quotes a Zeituni Onyango whom it describes as out of work and without much money.
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From DREAMS:

Auma [his Kenyan cousin] said: “Barack, this is our Auntie Zeituni. Our father’s sister.”
Aunt Zeituni said:“You take good care of Barry now, “Make sure he doesn’t get lost again.”

“...like our Uncle Omar in Boston. They promise to return after completing school. They say they’ll send for the family once they get settled. At first they write once a week. Then it’s just once a month. Then they stop writing completely. No one sees them again. They’ve been lost, you see. Even if people know where they are.””

[Fred Nerks]

Front row (left to right): Auma Obama (Barack's half-sister), Kezia Obama (Barack's stepmother), Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama (third wife of Barack's paternal grandfather), Zeituni Onyango (Barack's aunt) Back row (left to right): Sayid Obama (Barack's uncle), Barack Obama,Abongo [Roy] Obama (Barack's half-brother), unidentified woman, Bernard Obama (Barack's half-brother), Abo Obama (Barack's half-brother).

[Fred Nerks]

PLACING THE IMAGE OF MARK NDESANJO HERE TO SHOW ONCE AND FOR ALL HIS RESEMBLANCE TO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA SENIOR.

[thouworm]

EBONY, Aug 1971, Letter to the Editor by Obama Onyango

[thouworm]

[NOTE: Could not find date for article, but it appears to be 2007]

The village is part of the bigger Alego clan of the Luo community (tribe), the third largest in Kenya, which has had enormous political influence in the country’s history over the last 45 years.

It was here that the American Senator’s father, the late Barack Hussein Obama was born in 1936 as the first born son to Mama Sarah and Hussein Onyango Obama. The senator’s grandmother Sarah gave birth to eight children six of whom are alive. The senator’s three uncles, Said Hussein Obama, Yusuf Okoth Obama and Obama Onyango, are all alive. Yusuf, who joined his late brother Barack Obama Snr in the US to pursue studies in the 1960s, is now also an American citizen.

Said Hussein and Obama Onyango, live and work in Kenya, while their three sisters are happily married in Kenya.

“Apart from Barack Obama in America, I have several other grand children who visit me regularly. I feel very proud of them and especially of Barack who comes all the way from the US to visit me as he did last August,” said Mama Sarah in an interview.

(snip)

Mama Sarah says he kept in close touch with his family in America and their family, back in Kenya knew about their American relative who kept sending them pictures of the boy as he grew up.

Obama Snr’s remains are interred next to those of his father Hussein Onyango Obama at their Alego Kogelo home. On his grave are the inscriptions:

Barack Hussein Obama: Born 1936, died 1982.

On the grave of his father are the inscriptions:

Jaduong (Elder) Hussein Onyango Obama:

Born 1870; died on 29th November 1975
May his soul rest in peace.

Before he went for studies in America, Obama senior had married his first wife Ruth Obama. Ruth lives at home in Alego Kogelo with Grandma Sarah with her three sons. Her only daughter Kezia Obama lives in England.

The senator’s step brothers are all married and with children and the family have kept in touch. A chance for reunion as was offered by Obama’s visit in August 2006 is celebrated. During my visit to the village, Ruth Obama was in England to visit her daughter Kezia. A visit to the family home reveals a closely knit family that is regularly in touch despite living in different continents.

Obama is a widely used family name, which originated from one of their great grand fathers about two centuries ago. A number of people were named after the great grand father and the name lives on, passed from one generation to another as is common in the Luo tradition.

According to Mama Sarah who seems to know the family history very well, Senator Obama was named after his father. She says it was a mutual agreement between Obama senior and the senator’s American mother to name him after the father.

“My husband was born Lucas Onyango Obama in Kendu Bay near the shore of Lake Victoria in the present Rachuonyo District,” Mama Sarah explains, “ but he became Hussein Onyango Obama when he converted to Islam in Dare salaam, Tanzania where he worked as a young man.”

She says while her husband converted to Islam in his youth, largely to conform to his environment in Dare salaam, the family has had a liberal approach to matters of religion. “Many of my children and grand children are Christians and that is why I feel offended when I hear of attempts by those opposed to my grandson(Senator Obama) vying for the American presidency attempting to use Islam against him” says Mama Sarah Obama.

During the interview, Mama Sarah, 75, expressed anger at what she felt were attempts by Senator Obama’s critics, including sections of the American media, to cast aspersions on her grandson’s background.

She says the family is getting sensitive abou the way the media have been writing about her grandson and the family and she refuses to answer questions about her family and grandchildren saying they have explained this repeatedly but people still don’t understand.

“Many people including the media have been coming here to interview us but many are just looking for negative things to ruin my grandson’s reputation and bring him down politically,” she told this writer in an interview. “We have decided as a family that we shall no longer grant interviews to the press to avoid distortions but we welcome those who want to visit us or wish to confirm that indeed the senators come from a stable family background here in Kenya.”

They have decided as a family to limit media interviews and the senator’s uncle, Said Hussein Obama who lives in Kisumu, is now the person to talk to and not the grand mother.

He was not at home when African Interest team visited Alego Kogelo and efforts to trace him in Kisumu were fruitless.

Mama Sarah is now suspicious of visitors to the home although she is still welcoming in the tradition of the village and community. She parried a number of questions about her family saying it had all been in the media and that there was no more to say unless I was part of her grandson’s opponents who wanted to manufacture false stories to bring him down now that he was going for the big office.

The elder lady, born in 1922, is stout in build and still strong enough to do her household chores including doing farm work. She says since Obama’s last visit in August 2006, they have been overwhelmed by visitors to their Alego Kogelo Village.

The visitors have been both locals and foreigners, just anxious to set their eyes on this village which has produced one of the greatest African sons of his time who now want to be at the helm of the most powerful country’s affairs.

Mama Sarah lives in a modest but neat four-room brick house set in an undulating leafy surrounding overlooking a valley. The compound is neat, with her son’s houses on either side of her house according to Luo traditions. Just outside her fence is the senator’s step mother Ruth Obama’s home (Barack Obama snr’s home) built after his death. It is here that Ruth Obama lives with her sons, the senator’s step brothers.

Obama attended his father’s funeral in Alego Kogelo in 1982 and made the first contact with his ancestral home and relatives. They had only been seeing him in pictures which he and his mother kept sending from America.

On the wall of his grandmother’s sitting room hang many group pictures of the senator and relatives when he came to attend his father’s funeral.

The African Interest

[thouworm]

OMAR??? see 9th line for Onyango Omar and 19th line for Raila Odinga

Kenya: The Struggle For Democracy by Godwin R. Murunga, Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o

[Fred Nerks]

So our ‘Uncle Omar’ whose name is OBAMA ONYANGO was in the US in 1971 when he wrote to EBONY from CAMBRIDGE MASS.

Describes himself as a PAN-AFRICANIST, writes of ‘the dreams of MARCUS GARVEY, W.E.B. DU BOIS and MALCOLM X. (The three ‘Saints’ depicted at Jermiah Wright’s ‘Church’.)

Praise for ‘Black Star Square’ in Accra Ghana. Of course!

[Fred Nerks]

Hard to tell if Omar Onynago and Onyango Omar are the same person.

[Fred Nerks]

It was here that the American Senator’s father, the late Barack Hussein Obama was born in 1936 as the first born son to Mama Sarah and Hussein Onyango Obama.

WHAT HAPPENED TO AKUMU, THE MOTHER OF SENIOR, WHO IS PICTURED ON THE FRONT OF ‘DREAMS’ WITH LITTLE SENIOR ON HER LAP? THE WOMAN WHO ‘LEFT HER HUSBAND AND WENT TO TANZANIA’?

The senator’s grandmother Sarah gave birth to eight children six of whom are alive. The senator’s three uncles, Said Hussein Obama, Yusuf Okoth Obama and Obama Onyango, are all alive. Yusuf, who joined his late brother Barack Obama Snr in the US to pursue studies in the 1960s, is now also an American citizen.

SAID HUSSEIN OBAMA IS THE SON OF SARAH WHO KEEPS HIS EYE ON HER, SHE IS RARELY SEEN WITHOUT HIM BY HER SIDE. HE’S HER WATCHDOG, TO MAKE SURE SHE DOESN’T MAKE ANY SLIP-UPS, LIKE SAYING TO AUMA, ‘NONE OF YOU ARE HIS CHILDREN’

YUSUF, THE ARABIC NAME FOR JOSEPH, WENT TO SCHOOL WITH OBAMA SENIOR. HE LEFT MASENO SCHOOL ‘FOR UNEXPLAINED REASONS’ IN 1951. YUSUF IS THEREFOR TWO YEARS OLDER THAN OBAMA SENIOR. (UNLESS SARAH GAVE BIRTH TO TWO YUSUF.)

Said Hussein and Obama Onyango, live and work in Kenya, while their three sisters are happily married in Kenya.

OBAMA ONYNAGO IS THE ‘UNCLE OMAR’ FROM ‘DREAMS’ WHO WENT AWAY AND GOT ‘LOST’ - LAST HEARD OF, LIVING IN BOSTON.

“Apart from Barack Obama in America, I have several other grand children who visit me regularly. I feel very proud of them and especially of Barack who comes all the way from the US to visit me as he did last August,” said Mama Sarah in an interview.

(snip)

Mama Sarah says he kept in close touch with his family in America and their family, back in Kenya knew about their American relative who kept sending them pictures of the boy as he grew up.

Obama Snr’s remains are interred next to those of his father Hussein Onyango Obama at their Alego Kogelo home. On his grave are the inscriptions:

Barack Hussein Obama: Born 1936, died 1982.

On the grave of his father are the inscriptions:

Jaduong (Elder) Hussein Onyango Obama:

Born 1870; died on 29th November 1975
May his soul rest in peace.

Before he went for studies in America, Obama senior had married his first wife Ruth Obama. Ruth lives at home in Alego Kogelo with Grandma Sarah with her three sons. Her only daughter Kezia Obama lives in England.

WELL, THAT GOT RID OF THE LIE THAT KEZIA AND OBAMA SENIOR HAD CHILDREN, NOW THEY ALL BELONG TO RUTH!

The senator’s step brothers are all married and with children and the family have kept in touch. A chance for reunion as was offered by Obama’s visit in August 2006 is celebrated. During my visit to the village, Ruth Obama was in England to visit her daughter Kezia. A visit to the family home reveals a closely knit family that is regularly in touch despite living in different continents.

WON’T RUTH BE DELIGHTED TO READ THAT KEZIA IS NOW HER DAUGHTER? THESE PEOPLE ARE INSANE!

Obama is a widely used family name, which originated from one of their great grand fathers about two centuries ago. A number of people were named after the great grand father and the name lives on, passed from one generation to another as is common in the Luo tradition.

According to Mama Sarah who seems to know the family history very well, Senator Obama was named after his father. She says it was a mutual agreement between Obama senior and the senator’s American mother to name him after the father.

WELL, NOW THAT WE HAVE DISPENSED WITH THE SON THAT KEZIA WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE HAD WITH OBAMA SENIOR BEFORE HE WENT TO THE US...(what year was that?) THE FACT THAT THE ‘SON’ OBAMA WAS NAMED OBAMA TWO ISN’T A PROBLEM ANY MORE...

“My husband was born Lucas Onyango Obama in Kendu Bay near the shore of Lake Victoria in the present Rachuonyo District,” Mama Sarah explains, “ but he became Hussein Onyango Obama when he converted to Islam in Dare salaam, Tanzania where he worked as a young man.”

HE DROPPED HIS CHRISTIAN NAME. JUST AS HIS FIRST BORN SON JOSEPH DROPPED HIS CHRISTIAN NAME.

She says while her husband converted to Islam in his youth, largely to conform to his environment in Dare salaam, the family has had a liberal approach to matters of religion. “Many of my children and grand children are Christians and that is why I feel offended when I hear of attempts by those opposed to my grandson(Senator Obama) vying for the American presidency attempting to use Islam against him” says Mama Sarah Obama.

THAT’S WHY SHE MADE THE HAJJ?

During the interview, Mama Sarah, 75, expressed anger at what she felt were attempts by Senator Obama’s critics, including sections of the American media, to cast aspersions on her grandson’s background.

I CAN’T BRING MYSELF TO MAKE A COMMENT...

She says the family is getting sensitive abou the way the media have been writing about her grandson and the family and she refuses to answer questions about her family and grandchildren saying they have explained this repeatedly but people still don’t understand.

AND STILL DON’T.

“Many people including the media have been coming here to interview us but many are just looking for negative things to ruin my grandson’s reputation and bring him down politically,” she told this writer in an interview. “We have decided as a family that we shall no longer grant interviews to the press to avoid distortions but we welcome those who want to visit us or wish to confirm that indeed the senators come from a stable family background here in Kenya.”

SOUNDS LIKE THEY HIRED AN AGENT.

They have decided as a family to limit media interviews and the senator’s uncle, Said Hussein Obama who lives in Kisumu, is now the person to talk to and not the grand mother.

YEAH. HE’S HER PERMANENT SHADOW.

He was not at home when African Interest team visited Alego Kogelo and efforts to trace him in Kisumu were fruitless.

SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HE’S NOT AROUND? SHE LOSES IT.

Mama Sarah is now suspicious of visitors to the home although she is still welcoming in the tradition of the village and community. She parried a number of questions about her family saying it had all been in the media and that there was no more to say unless I was part of her grandson’s opponents who wanted to manufacture false stories to bring him down now that he was going for the big office.

IT’S A CONSPIRACY!

The elder lady, born in 1922, is stout in build and still strong enough to do her household chores including doing farm work. She says since Obama’s last visit in August 2006, they have been overwhelmed by visitors to their Alego Kogelo Village.

The visitors have been both locals and foreigners, just anxious to set their eyes on this village which has produced one of the greatest African sons of his time who now want to be at the helm of the most powerful country’s affairs.

NOT REALLY, SOME OF THE VISITORS WOULD SIMPLY LIKE TO KNOW THE TRUTH, BUT IT’S NOT GOING TO COME FROM THE VILLAGE...

Mama Sarah lives in a modest but neat four-room brick house set in an undulating leafy surrounding overlooking a valley. The compound is neat, with her son’s houses on either side of her house according to Luo traditions. Just outside her fence is the senator’s step mother Ruth Obama’s home (Barack Obama snr’s home) built after his death. It is here that Ruth Obama lives with her sons, the senator’s step brothers.

WRITTEN FOR THE CONSUMPTION OF LUO MUSLIMS NO DOUBT. MRS NDESANJO REMARRIED, LIVES IN NAIROBI, RUNS A KINGERGARTEN -

Obama attended his father’s funeral in Alego Kogelo in 1982 and made the first contact with his ancestral home and relatives. They had only been seeing him in pictures which he and his mother kept sending from America.

THERE YOU GO! A LITTLE NUGGET OF TRUTH AMONGST THE BS. AS SOON AS THE OLD MAN DIED, HE WENT TO KENYA. WHY? AND WHY WAS HE UNABLE TO CLAIM ANYTHING FROM THE OLD MAN’S MEAGRE ESTATE?

BECAUSE ONLY MARK HAD THE DOCUMENTATON TO SHOW HE WAS THE BIOLOGICAL/LEGAL SON OF SENIOR.

On the wall of his grandmother’s sitting room hang many group pictures of the senator and relatives when he came to attend his father’s funeral.

HE DIDN’T COME TO ATTEND THE FUNERAL. THERE ARE SEVERAL ARTICLES FROM AFRICA THAT SHOW HE CAME SOME MONTHS AFTER THE DEATH, IN 1983.

AND PS. SEE THAT IMAGE ABOVE OF MARK - THAT IS THE ONLY SON OBAMA SENIOR HAS WHO IS LIVING.

[thouworm]

I knew that article would get you worked up. :-) Surreal, isn’t it.

Yusuf, who joined his late brother Barack Obama Snr in the US to pursue studies in the 1960s, is now also an American citizen.

YUSUF, THE ARABIC NAME FOR JOSEPH, WENT TO SCHOOL WITH OBAMA SENIOR. HE LEFT MASENO SCHOOL ‘FOR UNEXPLAINED REASONS’ IN 1951. YUSUF IS THEREFOR TWO YEARS OLDER THAN OBAMA SENIOR. (UNLESS SARAH GAVE BIRTH TO TWO YUSUF.)

That would put Yusef’s birth year at 1934. He would now be, therefore, age 76; alive in 2007; and, according to article, an American citizen (but not necessarily living currently in America-—or even currently alive, for that matter).

[Fred Nerks]

YUSUF/JOSEPH, AS THE ELDEST SON OF ONYANGO AND SARAH, HALF BROTHER TO BARACK OBAMA SR, WHOSE MOTHER WAS AKUMU, WOULD HAVE BECOME THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY AFTER THE DEATH OF ONYANGO.

AND HERE THEY ARE, MOTHER AND SON.

[Fred Nerks]

[Fred Nerks]

The Lawyer: Chief Godson Achebe Anosike

[thouworm]

Chief Godson Achebe Anosike is also President of The Igbo Organization of New England

...which received a coveted position as a 2010 Census Partner

http://www.igbonewengland.org/leaders.html

[Fred Nerks]

EQUATORIAL GUINEA AND STOKELY CARMICHAEL, AKA KWAME TURE

SOURCE

...His black nationalist stance also brought invitations from third world nations, especially, African nations. On his first visit to Africa in 1967 he was introduced to Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah by Shirley Graham DuBois, the widow of W.E.B. DuBois. Brash as ever, though awed at meeting Nkrumah, a personal as well as political hero, he urged Nkrumah who had been ousted in a military coup and was living in Guinea, to take back Ghana through armed struggle. "Nkrumah sat me down and asked me why I was so impatient. I told him because I see my people suffering. ..

...Nkrumah suggested that he stay in Africa as his political secretary. Asked about his decision to accept the offer, Kwame answers emphatically. "Real black power requires a land base. The only place where we have a material basis for power is Africa."...

[Fred Nerks]

[Fred Nerks]

PRIME MINISTER OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY

...Carmichael moved (with his wife, Miriam Makeba) to the West African nation of Guinea, where he changed his name to Kwame Ture, in honor of Ghana’s former dictator Kwame Nkrumah, and Guinea’s then-President Ahmed Sekou Toure — both of whom were Marxists whose tyrannies had brought great suffering to their nations’ respective populations. While in Guinea, Carmichael (i.e., Kwame Ture) became dictator Toure’s aide and personal guest, living like a prince among the nation’s impoverished masses, and lavishing the Guinean ruler with praise.

Ture’s high regard for political tyrants extended as well to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and to the Marxist rulers of North Vietnam and other Communist governments.

In 1971 Ture published the book Stokely Speaks: Black Power Back to Pan-Africanism. After the death of President Toure in 1984, Ture was arrested by the new military regime and was charged with trying to overthrow the government...

...Carmichael was frequently outspoken about his contempt for Jews and the State of Israel. In 1967, for instance, when Israel was attacked by the armies of several Arab nations, Carmichael publicly proclaimed that “the only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.”