I get it. The peasants aren’t revolting enough, they need to be prodded. Accusing Mooshelle of wasting the treasury on diamonds won’t cut it...
HUSSEIN ONYANGO OBAMA
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Having adapted to British ways from a stint serving the British Army in Burma, Hussein Obama held everyone to a high standard of excellence — in school and in life.
Seeing the advantages of modern life before many others did in his home area near Lake Victoria, he had his children attending school, wearing Western clothes and provided his home with Western furnishings including a table where the family would sit and eat with cutlery. Second, as a Muslim, he wore a fez as well as a kanzu and vest.
Also unusual for the times, he had learned to read and write.
Gloria remembers Hussein reading his Koran and other books at night by the light of an oil lamp, as well as her shock and frustration that the landlord had refused to provide electricity to the staff houses.
Many of these points have been corroborated in Barack Obama’s journey of discovery of his Kenyan roots Dreams From My Father.
Through having known Hussein Onyango Obama and his son Barack Obama Sr., Gloria has felt that same immediacy and connection that so many Kenyans feel for America’s new leaders.
The threads that run through Gloria Hagberg’s life of hard work, open-mindedness and friendship have been woven together with the lives of many others who strive to leave the world a better place than they found it.
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