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Africans rejoice as Obama wins historic elections
Oludare Fase with additional agency reports
It was all celebrations in Kenya and else-where in Africa over the news of Sen. Obama’s victory as the first black
president in America. In his father’s home town, there were parties and killings of animals to celebrate the victory of
a man they see as a bona-fide “son of the soil’
Reports said that it was also celebration galore all over Africa as many trooped into local bars, clubs, and liquor joint to celebrate the “defining moment in history.” of the United States.
Obama’s father Barack Obama sr. a Kenyan went to United States to school and returned home at
the end of his Master Degree at Harvard University . He died in 1984 in a car accident.
Biography of Sen. Obama’s Father
Barack Hussein Obama (1936–1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist, and father of Illinois Senator
and 2008 Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
Early years
Obama Sr. was born on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kendu Bay, Rachuonyo and raised in Nyang’oma Kogelo,
Alego, Siaya, Kenya. He was the son of Hussein Onyango Obama ( 1895–1979) by his second wife, Akumu
Habiba. His family are members of the Luo ethnic group. Obama Sr. was raised as a Muslim, but later became an
atheist. He grew up in Nyang’oma Kogelo, and was married at the age of eighteen in a tribal ceremony to Kezia,
with whom he had four children.
Education
Obama Sr. received a scholarship in economics through a program organized by nationalist leader Tom Mboya. The
program offered Western educational opportunities to outstanding Kenyan students. Senator Obama said of his
father's scholarship, "The Kennedys decided: 'We're going to do an airlift. We're going to go to Africa and start
bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful
country America is. This young man named Barack Obama [Sr.] got one of those tickets and came over to this
country.'"
Initial financial supporters of the program included Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Jackie Robinson, and Elizabeth
Mooney Kirk, a literacy advocate who provided most of the financial support for Obama Sr.'s early years in the
United States, according to the Tom Mboya archives at Stanford University.
At the age of 23, Obama Sr. enrolled at the University of Hawaii, leaving behind a pregnant Kezia and their infant
son. Obama Sr. had already turned away from Islam and become an atheist by the time he moved to the United
States . Barack Obama Sr.'s daughter Auma has commented that her father "was never a Muslim although he was
born into a Muslim family with a Muslim name."
On 21 February 1961, Obama Sr. married fellow student Ann Dunham in Maui, Hawaii. Their son, Barack Obama,
( now president-elect) was born on August 4, 1961. Dunham left school to care for the baby, while Obama Sr.
completed his degree. He graduated from the University of Hawaii in June 1962, leaving shortly thereafter to travel
to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he would begin graduate study at Harvard University in the fall ater that
summer, Dunham and the year-old baby Barack stopped to visit her friends in Mercer Island, Washington, the
Seattle suburb where she had grown up, before joining Obama Sr. in Cambridge .
However, mother and son soon returned to Seattle , where she enrolled in the University of Washington. Dunham,
missing her family, then moved back to Hawaii and filed for divorce in Honolulu in January 1964. Obama Sr. did not
contest, and the divorce was granted. He only saw his son again once, in 1971, when Barack was 10 years old.
While at Harvard, Obama Sr. met an American-born teacher named Ruth Nidesand. She followed him to Kenya
when he returned there after receiving a Masters degree (AM) in economics from Harvard in 1965. Nidesand
eventually became his third wife and had two children with him before they divorced.
Return to Kenya
On his return to Kenya , Obama Sr. was hired by an oil company and then served as an economist in the Ministry of
Transportation, and later became senior economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Finance. In 1965 Obama Sr. wrote a
paper titled "Problems Facing Our Socialism," published in the East Africa Journal, harshly criticizing the blueprint
for national planning titled "African Socialism and Its Applicability to Planning in Kenya" produced by Tom Mboya's
Ministry of Economic Planning and Development. As Senator Barack Obama describes in his memoir, his father's
conflict with President Kenyatta destroyed his career.
Obama Sr.'s life then took a tailspin into drinking and poverty, from which he never recovered. His friend, Kenyan
journalist Philip Ochieng, has described Obama Sr.'s difficult personality and drinking problems in the Kenya
newspaper The Nation. Obama Sr. lost both legs in an automobile collision, and subsequently lost his job. He died
not long afterward at the age of 46 in a car crash in Nairobi. Obama Sr. is buried in Alego, at the village of Nyang’
oma Kogelo , Siaya District , Kenya .
Source: wikipedia.
Oludare Fase with additional agency reports
It was all celebrations in Kenya and else-where in Africa over the news of Sen. Obama’s victory as the first black
president in America. In his father’s home town, there were parties and killings of animals to celebrate the victory of
a man they see as a bona-fide “son of the soil’
Reports said that it was also celebration galore all over Africa as many trooped into local bars, clubs, and liquor joint to celebrate the “defining moment in history.” of the United States.
Obama’s father Barack Obama sr. a Kenyan went to United States to school and returned home at
the end of his Master Degree at Harvard University . He died in 1984 in a car accident.
Biography of Sen. Obama’s Father
Barack Hussein Obama (1936–1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist, and father of Illinois Senator
and 2008 Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
Early years
Obama Sr. was born on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kendu Bay, Rachuonyo and raised in Nyang’oma Kogelo,
Alego, Siaya, Kenya. He was the son of Hussein Onyango Obama ( 1895–1979) by his second wife, Akumu
Habiba. His family are members of the Luo ethnic group. Obama Sr. was raised as a Muslim, but later became an
atheist. He grew up in Nyang’oma Kogelo, and was married at the age of eighteen in a tribal ceremony to Kezia,
with whom he had four children.
Education
Obama Sr. received a scholarship in economics through a program organized by nationalist leader Tom Mboya. The
program offered Western educational opportunities to outstanding Kenyan students. Senator Obama said of his
father's scholarship, "The Kennedys decided: 'We're going to do an airlift. We're going to go to Africa and start
bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful
country America is. This young man named Barack Obama [Sr.] got one of those tickets and came over to this
country.'"
Initial financial supporters of the program included Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Jackie Robinson, and Elizabeth
Mooney Kirk, a literacy advocate who provided most of the financial support for Obama Sr.'s early years in the
United States, according to the Tom Mboya archives at Stanford University.
At the age of 23, Obama Sr. enrolled at the University of Hawaii, leaving behind a pregnant Kezia and their infant
son. Obama Sr. had already turned away from Islam and become an atheist by the time he moved to the United
States . Barack Obama Sr.'s daughter Auma has commented that her father "was never a Muslim although he was
born into a Muslim family with a Muslim name."
On 21 February 1961, Obama Sr. married fellow student Ann Dunham in Maui, Hawaii. Their son, Barack Obama,
( now president-elect) was born on August 4, 1961. Dunham left school to care for the baby, while Obama Sr.
completed his degree. He graduated from the University of Hawaii in June 1962, leaving shortly thereafter to travel
to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he would begin graduate study at Harvard University in the fall ater that
summer, Dunham and the year-old baby Barack stopped to visit her friends in Mercer Island, Washington, the
Seattle suburb where she had grown up, before joining Obama Sr. in Cambridge .
However, mother and son soon returned to Seattle , where she enrolled in the University of Washington. Dunham,
missing her family, then moved back to Hawaii and filed for divorce in Honolulu in January 1964. Obama Sr. did not
contest, and the divorce was granted. He only saw his son again once, in 1971, when Barack was 10 years old.
While at Harvard, Obama Sr. met an American-born teacher named Ruth Nidesand. She followed him to Kenya
when he returned there after receiving a Masters degree (AM) in economics from Harvard in 1965. Nidesand
eventually became his third wife and had two children with him before they divorced.
Return to Kenya
On his return to Kenya , Obama Sr. was hired by an oil company and then served as an economist in the Ministry of
Transportation, and later became senior economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Finance. In 1965 Obama Sr. wrote a
paper titled "Problems Facing Our Socialism," published in the East Africa Journal, harshly criticizing the blueprint
for national planning titled "African Socialism and Its Applicability to Planning in Kenya" produced by Tom Mboya's
Ministry of Economic Planning and Development. As Senator Barack Obama describes in his memoir, his father's
conflict with President Kenyatta destroyed his career.
Obama Sr.'s life then took a tailspin into drinking and poverty, from which he never recovered. His friend, Kenyan
journalist Philip Ochieng, has described Obama Sr.'s difficult personality and drinking problems in the Kenya
newspaper The Nation. Obama Sr. lost both legs in an automobile collision, and subsequently lost his job. He died
not long afterward at the age of 46 in a car crash in Nairobi. Obama Sr. is buried in Alego, at the village of Nyang’
oma Kogelo , Siaya District , Kenya .
Source: wikipedia.