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Obama father 'was abusive'

Source: BBC
Guangzhou : China | about 1 month ago  
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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 emerged in 2008.
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  • 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. "...
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  • Blog Source: rawstory.com
    2008638183 Obamas half brother: Our father beat me President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel — the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly
  • Blog Source: www.celebritymound.com
    In it, Obama described a visit to Kenya to meet his half siblings and learn more about his father. While painting his father as abusive, he called Obama Sr. a gifted but erratic alcoholic who never lived up to his intellectual promise ... Ndesandjo
  • Blog Source: blogs.timeslive.co.za
    US President Barack Obama's half-brother Mark Ndesandjo has released his first novel, Nairobi to Shenzhen , which is about a man who is forced to confront his early experiences in Kenya and the United States after arriving in China in ...
  • Blog Source: jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com
    President Obama's half-brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel -- the semiautobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir ... Ndesandjo,
  • Blog Source: blogs.wsj.com
    It also makes reference to the author's difficult relationship with his late father, Barack Obama Sr., who Ndesandjo describes as emotionally and physically abusive. “My mother used to say of my father, he's a brilliant man but a social ...
  • Blog Source: topics.oneriot.com
    Barack Obama 's half-brother in China has broken his media silence to launch a semi-autobiographical novel, which he said was partly inspired by their... www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/04/barack-obama-father-abuse ...
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