'My Life with Obama Senior'
"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.
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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."
Kezia and the author of that article above make some statements that leave one wondering...yes, if the Kenyan had left for Hawaii in 1964, Malik/Roy/Abomgo would have been six years of age, if born in 1958...but 1964 was the year of return to Kenya.
There's no doubt when the Kenyan student arrived in Hawaii, but what appears to be in doubt is his birth year, variously given as 1934 and 1936, which raises the question, was he the elder or the younger brother at the school in Maseno, and just what happened to the student the teacher named Joseph?
Btw, the Kenyan student insisted in the pronunciation of his name being Bearick which indicates that his name was also anglicized at Maseno to Berwick.
