Posted on 06/24/2009 10:54:57 PM PDT by neverdem
Thank you for the ping;
that article is VERY important!
Bumping this one....
It sure is
Book Pre-Launch in Guangzhou! 2014-3-27
http://www.markobamandesandjo.com/article1.asp?a_id=13
excerpt:
I have seen babies torn apart by violence and neglect. As babies, Baracks eyes were full of life and hope, and mine were tinged with a bittersweet innocence. Then we were separated and we followed two different destinies. No longer babies, Barack and I are still recovering from that. He from the absence of a good father, and I from the presence of a bad one.
(Text only) She grew up and attended Punahou School with “Barry” Obama. She recalls how as a young child, Obama alternatively told classmates he was an Indonesian prince or Kenyan royalty
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2278969/posts?page=980#980
the question is, how much of that letter to Mboya is genuine?
the excerpts from the Hoover archivist pre-date the release of the ‘entire’ letter, which has never been shown on one page, always only as two separate graphics.
Not really. There seems to be a paragraph missing.
Thanks for the good work...
Barack Obama Sr. to Tom Mboya, May 29, 1962, Tom Mboya Papers, Box 41, Hoover Institution Archives.
Same letter, same date; where's the missing paragraph?
Author Maya Angelou dies at 86 in North Carolina
By 17, she was a single mother. In her early 20s, she danced at a strip joint, ran a brothel, was married, and then divorced. But by her mid-20s, she was performing at the Purple Onion in San Francisco.
She worked as a coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and lived for years in Egypt and Ghana, where she met Nelson Mandela, a longtime friend;
and Malcolm X, to whom she remained close until his assassination, in 1965.
Back in the 1960s, Malcolm X had written to Angelou and praised her for her ability to communicate so directly, with her “feet firmly rooted on the ground.”
http://news.yahoo.com/author-maya-angelou-dies-86-north-carolina-151746880.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2278969/posts?page=27#27
MAYA ANGELOU - MALCOLM X
Developing a brother/sister relationship with Malcolm X has been very important to me.
Because Mr. Malcolm X came to Africa, and I was able, along with others, to help him to meet all of the Africans of power in Ghana at the time.
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/printmember/ang0int-1
maya angelou bio
In New York, she fell in love with the South African civil rights activist Vusumzi Make and in 1960, the couple moved, with Angelou’s son, to Cairo, Egypt. In Cairo, Angelou served as editor of the English language weekly The Arab Observer. Angelou and Guy later moved to Ghana, where she joined a thriving group of African American expatriates. She served as an instructor and assistant administrator at the University of Ghana’s School of Music and Drama, worked as feature editor for The African Review and wrote for The Ghanaian Times and the Ghanaian Broadcasting Company.
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/ang0bio-1
Malcolm X - Black American History, a history of black people in the United States.
(dead link)
He also began developing an independent Pan-Africanist and, in some respects, “Third World” political perspective during the 1950s, when anticolonial wars and decolonization (see Decolonization in Africa: An Interpretation) were pressing public issues. As early as 1954 Malcolm X gave a speech comparing the situation in Vietnam (see Vietnam War) with that of the Mau Mau Rebellion in colonial Kenya, framing both of these movements as uprisings of the “darker races” creating a “tidal wave” against U.S. and European imperialism. Indeed, Africa remained his primary political interest outside of black America. He toured Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria, and Ghana in 1959, well before his famous trip to Africa and the Middle East in 1964.
OBAMA REMEMBERS MAYA ANGELOU...
Maya Angelou receives a Medal of Freedom from President Obama at the White House in Washington in this February 15, 2011 file photo. U.S. author and poet Maya Angelou has died at age 86 in North Carolina.. REUTERS/Larry Downing/Files
Obama's sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, was named after Angelou.
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(Maya Soetoro Ng was born in INDONESIA in August, 1970).
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