Posted on 11/03/2009 8:11:26 PM PST by Steelfish
Obama's Half Brother Recalls Their Abusive Father
November 3, 2009
China (AP) -- President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel -- the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.
In his first interview, Mark Ndesandjo told The Associated Press that he wrote ''Nairobi to Shenzhen'' in part to raise awareness of domestic violence.
''My father beat my mother and my father beat me, and you don't do that,'' said Ndesandjo, whose mother, Ruth Nidesand, was Barack Obama Sr.'s third wife. ''It's something which I think affected me for a long time, and it's something that I've just recently come to terms with.''
Like his novel's main character, Ndesandjo had an American mother who is Jewish and who divorced his Kenyan father. The novel, which goes on sale Wednesday by the self-publishing company Aventine Press, is one of several books in the works by relatives of the president.
President Obama's parents separated two years after he was born in Hawaii in 1961. The senior Obama, a Kenyan exchange student, divorced the president's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, in 1964 and had at least six other children in his native Kenya.
For the past seven years, Ndesandjo has been living in the booming southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong (snip).
Ndesandjo, who said he attended Obama's inauguration as a family guest, declined to discuss his earliest memories of the president or describe their relationship over the years. However, he said he plans to meet his brother in Beijing when the president makes his first visit to China on Nov. 15-18.
''My plan is to introduce my wife to him. She is his biggest fan,'' he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“....Mark Ndesandjo is the son of Obama Sr. and his third wife, American Ruth Nidesand, who runs a kindergarten in Nairobi, Kenya. In Dreams From My Father, Obama describes meeting Mark, who said he never thought of settling in Kenya since, “there’s not much work for a physicist, is there, in a country where the average person doesn’t have a telephone...You think that somehow I’m cut off from my roots, that sort of thing. Well, you’re right...At a certain point I made the decision not to think about who my real father was. He was dead to me even when he was still alive. I knew that he was a drunk and showed no concern for his wife and children. That was enough.”
“It made you mad,” Obama said.
“Not mad,” replied Mark.” Just numb.”
...”
(snip)
Sr. abandoned Jr. Boo-effin-hoo. Such a harsh life. Being abandoned by his father has been a central theme in his narrative. Maybe he should get on his knees and thank God (whoops, Allah) that Sr. did leave. Would he want Mark's life?
I will be watching to see how Obama handles questions (if anyone has the balls to ask).
Mr. President, what do you think of the accusations your step-brother made against your AFRICAN father? Is he being truthful or are you living in fantasy land?
See Post #358 & #373 in African Colonial:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/2278969/posts
Barack Obama, Sr., was brilliant, rebellious, charming from an early age, and always difficult to handle. He would take many days off from classes, then cram for exams and come out with the highest marks. Eventually, his antics got him expelled from high school. Onyango then sent his son to the port city of Mombasa to work as a clerk for an Asian friend.
Barack left that job and found another, at a lower salary. [with Mooney’s organization, I presume?]
He drifted into the orbit of the Kenyatta- led political party at around the time that emergency regulations were promulgated in 1952 in reaction to the Mau Mau rebellion, and was briefly jailed. He married, fathered two children, and made a connection with Mboya, then a rising union official, and with another aspiring political Luo, Oginga Odinga, who was known as a committed socialist.
Obama also came to the attention of two American women working in Kenya, Mrs. Helen Roberts of Palo Alto and Miss Elizabeth Mooney of Maryland, a literacy specialist. They recognized his intellect and thirst for further education and helped him take correspondence courses, to which— for the first time— he applied his full efforts and skills.
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In 1956, at the age of 20 he moved to Nairobi, Kenya where he began working as a clerk. At this time while he was on vacation in Kundy Bay, Kenya he met a 16-year-old girl named Kezia at a dance. Kezia was so struck by him that she followed him back to Nairobi. Her father and brothers soon followed to try and force her to come back to Kundy Bay, but she refused. The two married in a tribal ceremony January, 1957. His family sent Kezia’s father 14 cows for her dowry. The following year the couple had their first son, Abongo.
I’m looking forward to Sarah Palin beating Obama in 2012!
HERE WE GO AGAIN:
...She was a 16-year-old schoolgirl while Barack Snr, two years older, had just got his first proper job as an
office clerk in Nairobi...
(HIS SCHOOL RECORDS SHOW HE LEFT SCHOOL IN 1953 (AT THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN. BORN 1936)
...Kezia said: “It was at a dance in Kendu Bay, my home town. Barack was there on holiday with his family.
“I went to the dance hall with my cousin William and I saw Barack enter the room. I thought, ‘ohhh, wow’. He was so lovely with his dancing. So handsome and so smart...
“We danced together and then the next day my cousin came to our house and told me that Barack liked me.
“It was December, so I was off school. Each day Barack and my cousin would stop by the house.
“Every time I looked they were always there, trying to convince me to go with Barack to Nairobi.
“About a week later, William and I took Barack to the station. We were going to say: ‘Bye bye, see you next time.’ Except there was no bye bye.
“When the train arrived William and Barack said, “You are going to Nairobi.” I went with him.’
Her father, a local driver, was furious.
Kezia said: “He did not like Obama. My father and brothers came to Nairobi to bring me back. They said I had to go back to school.
“When I wouldn’t, they said they would never speak to me again.
“Barack was also worried about what his father would think because I was so young, but he gave us his approval. He sent my mother and father 14 cows for my dowry.
“Barack’s father was only a cook so it was a big sacrifice. Very soon after, we were married.”...
(’VERY SOON AFTER’ IS IN 1954 WHEN OBAMA SR WAS 18)
...That was January 1957. Kezia and Barack Snr set up home in Jericho, a section of Nairobi created for government employees, and began a family...
(IT COULDN’T HAVE BEEN 1957.)
...First son Roy was born in March 1958. Kezia insisted: “Barack was a good husband.”
(FIRST SON ROY WAS SIX YEARS OLD IN 1959. HE WAS BORN IN 1954.)
IT’S MY GROOVE AND I’M STUCK IN IT!
“IT’S MY GROOVE AND I’M STUCK IN IT!”
LOL — I am not questioning their ages (I am still confused on this & am relying on you to sort out); I was just pointing our BHO Sr’s career arc.
1) Got expelled in 1953 from Maseno
2) Got a job in Mombasa clerking for an Asian
3) Got a better job clerking in Nairobi -— think this is when he came into sphere of influence of Mooney, Mboya, etc
-— Also, he was jailed for a brief period, indicating he was doing more than clerking
Okanda removes a brown card from one of them. “This one belonged to Barack Obama Sr. He joined the school in 1950 and left in 1953,” he explains.
Obama Sr — Index No 3422 — joined the school with his elder brother, Joseph, who left in 1951 for unexplained reasons
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http://www.eastandard.net/obama/InsidePage.php?id=1143998493&cid=530&;
that statement indicates his 'interest in the independence movement' and places that interest around the time he left the Maseno school. I wonder if we could find just when he was 'briefly jailed'?
Interesting connection to Oginga Odinga, the man who visited Malcolm X in Atlanta and was embraced by him...
Some of the comments on OBAMA THE AFRICAN COLONIAL I must admit, I have forgotten the content. Thanks.
But oddly enough, BHO, Sr. is not the bio-unit responsible for Stanley Ann's foal. I have also looked very carefully into the timelines and now-sealed records and I can prove without a shadow of doubt, that not only is BHO, Jr. a Natural Born American Citizen (as any natural son of Nat King Cole would be) but that he is also :
Persnickety paperwork be damned! We are just so gosh-darned lucky to have him, and Michelle and the kids, of course. You ozzies can just go green with jealousy... we got the bugger!
So? Stanley Ann was in Seattle just a few weeks after he was allegedly born, by the end of August of '61, and was attending classes at U. Washington a few weeks after that.
It is allowed in the US, if the marriages took place in a place where Polygamy is legal. At least it's legal in the sense that you won't get prosecuted. I think you can only claim one wife for most other purposes though.
We have polygamy now in Maine, among our Somali tribesmen.
Apparently if 3 women want to live with you and your wife in America it’s OK!
...if we could find just when he was ‘briefly jailed’?
I’ll keep a look out for it, but I doubt we are going to find that.
Possibly interesting parellels with Obama, Jr & Malik with Raila Odinga (see post #140) &
Obama’s Militant Muslim Brother Abongo Is Luo Activist
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1994865/posts
obumpa
Getting closer -— interesting article
Barack Obama Sr, Mr Onyango’s son and the President-elect’s father, seems to have inherited his father’s attitudes towards the colonial power. He was also arrested, for attending a meeting in Nairobi of the Kenya African National Union (Kanu), the organisation spearheading the independence movement.
Mrs Onyango told Mr Obama that his father, unlike her husband, had been held only for a short time in the white man’s prison: “Because he was not a leader in Kanu, Barack was released after a few days.”
well...once upon a time there was a woman and her name was Akumu Nyanjoga. She was the second wife of Hussein Onyango Obama. This Akumu had a son and two daughters, but she was unhappy in her marriage and ran away to marry a man in Tanziania. ( If you can believe that.) Now the name of her son was Barack Hussein Obama, born in 1936.
However, she was the second wife. The first wife (Sarah?) had given birth to a son, his name was Joseph. Barack Hussein Obama and Joseph went to the same Maseno school. Where they learned tailoring and other most useful things...but Joseph left school in 1951 for unexplained reasons. And we have never been able to find him again.
At around this time, another student attended this school, his name was Oginga Odinga. Oginga would one day become Vice President of Kenya. But Oginga also spent time in the United States and met with Malcolm X, who embraced him, and a popluar song was written about Oginga in the US.
I have tried to find this missing Joseph, and thinking maybe he might pop up as an Uncle of Obama the POTUS, I Googled muchly, but all I could find was an Uncle Yusuf (the arabic spelling of Joseph) but his age is all wrong...
Yusuf Obama Half-uncle of Barack Obama,[110] born c. 1950s in Nyang’oma Kogelo; son of Onyango and Sarah Obama.[citation needed]
Sayid Obama Half-uncle of Barack Obama,[110][114] born c. 1950s in Nyang’oma Kogelo; son of Onyango and Sarah Obama.[citation needed]
As you can see, I found TWO HALF UNCLES and both of them were born to Sarah IN THE SAME YEAR.
How am I doing so far?
Kezia lied about her age.
Just like Obama'a Mama, his mother left his father very shortly after he was born. Wiki article says 16 days after GF, born Leslie Lynch King, Jr, was born in Omaha.
Ford also presided over the "Worst recession since the Depression", but Obama has outdone in that area,
Unlike Obama though, Ford served his country in uniform, becoming a Lt. Cmdr. in the Navy during WW-II. Also unlike Obumer, he took the name of the man who raised him, even though never formally adopted. He also had some real experience, as leader, besides his Naval officer time, he served in the US House for 25 years, 8 of those as minority leader.
Just like Obama'a Mama, his mother left his father very shortly after he was born. Wiki article says 16 days after GF, born Leslie Lynch King, Jr, was born in Omaha.
Ford also presided over the "Worst recession since the Depression", but Obama has outdone in that area,
Unlike Obama though, Ford served his country in uniform, becoming a Lt. Cmdr. in the Navy during WW-II. Also unlike Obumer, he took the name of the man who raised him, even though never formally adopted. He also had some real experience, as leader, besides his Naval officer time, he served in the US House for 25 years, 8 of those as minority leader.
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