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Obama's Half Brother Pens a Book About Abuse

Beijing : China | 24 days ago  
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    News conference for the release of Mark's novel
Obama's Half Brother

Unbeknownst to the world is one Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo. You will know all about him soon enough.

His revelations startle.

Going strictly by the moniker Ndesandjo, the businessman, musician is the half brother of the United States President Barack Obama.

He has penned an autobiographical novel titled, “Nairobi to Shenzhen.” Included in this explosive manuscript are vivid accusations and revelations about a physically abusive father, Barack Obama, Sr.

Ndesandjo comes with some obvious Obama blood. Sans the earring and close crop hair, he looks strikingly familiar although he is a few years younger. Barak and he did not grow up together.

Similarly, he appears to have tools in the noggin.

He was born in Kenya to Obama, Sr’s third wife, Ruth Nidesand, the daughter of Jewish Lithuanian immigrants. The couple later divorced and Ndesandjo moved to the United States. He earned degrees in physics from Brown University and Stanford and an MBA from Emory University.

I don’t even know if those places will let me on campus.

"My father beat my mother and my father beat me," Ndesandjo told the Associated Press from an early interview released Wednesday. "I remember situations when I was growing up, and there would be a light coming from our living room, and I could hear thuds and screams, and my father's voice and my mother shouting."

Ndesandjo claims he needed to publish this novel as a way of self-cleansing.

He married a Chinese woman last year from Henan province and has been living in China for more than 7 years.

The Chinese press has praised Ndesandjo for his modesty as well as his fluent spoken and written Chinese. "Mark is very smart and multitalented," wrote one state news agency.

A classical and jazz pianist, Ndesandjo volunteers as a piano teacher in an orphanage. He gave a charity concert in January to raise money for orphans, playing a selection that sampled a variety of artists, such as Chopin and Fats Waller.

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  • Posted By HeatherJ3307 HeatherJ3307 | 24 days ago
    Wow. I didn't even know Obama had a half brother!
  • Reply By nathanielinbrazil nathanielinbrazil | 24 days ago
    You don't even know how many people I've told had the same reaction. I didn't know. I was stunned. It will be interesting to see whether this is a coattails thing of maybe somebody on their own path.
  • Posted By Rolfe10025 Rolfe10025 | 24 days ago
    Wow. ididnt no that either.
  • Reply By nathanielinbrazil nathanielinbrazil | 24 days ago
    Same reaction I had when I found out. It is an incredibly low played thing.
  • Posted By Vinnymac11 Vinnymac11 | 24 days ago
    This should be a really interesting book.
  • Reply By nathanielinbrazil nathanielinbrazil | 24 days ago
    Maybe you can review. I would be interested. I too look forward to reading.
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