News Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
| 20 days ago
Mark Ndesandjo is the product of Barack Obama Sr.'s marriage to his third wife, Ruth Nidesand, a Jewish American, the Associated Press reports. Ndesandjo recently authored a semiautobiographical story, Nairobi to Shenzhen , in which he revealed that...
News Source: CNN
| 20 days ago
In a new book, the half brother of President Obama claims the father they shared was often drunk and physically abusive. "My father beat me," Mark Obama Ndesandjo told reporters in China, where he lives. "He beat my mother...I shut these thoughts in...
News Source: BBC
| 20 days ago
The author is the son of Mr Obama's late father and his third wife. Barack Obama Sr split from Mr Obama's mother when the future president was aged two. Mr Ndesandjo, who lives in China, had previously shunned the media since his link to Mr Obama...
News Source: Washington Post
| 20 days ago
The mixed-race son of a brilliant but troubled Kenyan academic and a white American woman writes an emotionally moving book about his search for identity and self. This is not the familiar story of President Obama. It is the tale of his little-known,...
News Source: Press TV
| 20 days ago
Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo made a rare appearance on Wednesday in southern China to unveil his novel, 'Nairobi to Shenzhen', the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent. Barack Obama's Kenyan father and American mother separated when he was...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 20 days ago
Ndesandjo, who has lived in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen for seven years, said he wrote "Nairobi to Shenzhen" after a string of extraordinary events -- including his brother being elected president -- made him come to terms with his past. "...