Mama Sarah: Barack Obama’s grandmother

[…] Barack Obama was born in 1961, the son of a Kenyan father and American mother who had met at a university in Hawaii.

They split up when Barack was only two. His father returned to Kenya where he became a civil servant in Jomo Kenyatta’s independence administration while his mother settled with Barack and a new partner in Indonesia […]

And “Mama Sarah”, as she is known locally, told Telewa that she has followed her grandson’s political career with interest – although she herself didn’t go to school and had to teach herself to read. […]

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