Although hard to read, when this article was written in 1959, the author relates although Obama, who has been away from Kenya for seven years...'
Although hard to read, when this article was written in 1959, the author relates although Obama, who has been away from Kenya for seven years...'
"He asked to dance with me during a party and I couldn't turn him down. He picked me out of several girls that were there. A few days later, I married him ... He paid 14 cows as dowry for me, which were delivered in two batches. That was because he loved me so greatly."
-- Grace Keziah Obama, First Wife of Barack Obama Sr.
In 1964, during the famous airlifts organized by late Planning Minister Tom Mboya, Obama Senior left for the United States for further studies. "I remember escorting him to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, then known as Embakasi airport," she says. "He asked me to take care of our then only child, Malik Abongo, who was six years old. I was pregnant with our second - Rita Auma."