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  The Obamas of the World
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Last EditedMonsieur  Mar 06, 2008 06:39pm
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CategoryInvestigation
MediaNewspaper - New York Times
News DateFriday, March 7, 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionPiecing together Barack Obama’s family is like piecing together the world. It’s a rich experience, but not easy.

Here, at the end of a road of reddish earth, past women carrying bags of maize to market, past mud shacks with thatch roofs and kids in school uniform, under the mango trees and beside the chickens poking around, sits Auma Obama, the senator’s older half-sister. She’s the key.

Behind her, in a corner of the Obama homestead, where calves scamper and avocado trees grow, is the grave of their father. It says simply: Barack Hussein Obama, born 1936, died 1982. He’s the mystery.

The wind rustles in the branches; otherwise not a sound. Such peace is shocking, a stranger to modernity. I’ve come here to remote western Kenya to understand the breathtaking dimensions of the one-generation leap made by Senator Obama.
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