Obama Jr. , the White Resident at Washington DC. was born to Barack Hussein Obama Sr. , an ethnic Jaluo tribesman from a village near Kendu Bay a small settlement on the shore of Lake Victoria in Kenya, who came as a student tp Hawaii and Ann Dunham (Irish surname ? ) a white girl originally from Kansas in mid-USA. They met at a Russian language class of the University of Hawaii. It would appear that fate brought them together on the night celebrating a most thrilling Presidential election of John Fitgerald Kennedy , a Democrat, in November,1960. Obama Jr. was born on the 4th August , 1961. Parents separated after only two years of marriage.
Obama Sr. (b.1936 ) returned to Kenya , worked as an Economist in a Kenya Govt. Dept. but died in a car accident in November, 1982. Apparently he was born a Muslim but became Agnostic later in his life. But what is more interesting is the story of Obama Jr. paternal grandfather Onyango Obama (1895 - 1979 ) He started his career as a cook for Christian missionaries in Nairobi and later joined Kings African Rifles as an askari. During his career as armyman he was posted in Europe, India and Zanzibar. It was in Zanzibar that he gave up his Roman Catholicism and became a Muslim - Hussein Onyango Obama. * * * Was life in the *kudds* glamourised? Who said, "It appears that the Goanese (sic) are a roving people, prepared to go to any part of the world for well-paid employment"? How did Goans find their first toehold in the Gulf? Find your answers in Selma Carvalho's *Into the Goan Diaspora Wilderness*. Buy from Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
