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Obama and Kenya - LAST REVIEWED: 29 November 2017
- LAST MODIFIED: 29 November 2017
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199846733-0197
- LAST REVIEWED: 29 November 2017
- LAST MODIFIED: 29 November 2017
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199846733-0197
Carotenuto, Matthew, and Katherine Luongo. Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016.
The first book-length attention to the topic directly. It places Obama’s family history and political rise into a contested story of identity politics in Kenya from colonial times to 2015. This coauthored work emphasizes the political uses of history in Kenya and the ways this history was commodified by opponents and supporters of Barack Obama, the politician.
Cohen, David W., and E. S. Atieno Odhiambo. Siaya: The Historical Anthropology of an African Landscape. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1989.
An important study to understand the social and political landscape of western Kenya that Obama first encountered in 1988. Cohen and Odhiambo explore diasporic and gendered notions of Luo identity, focusing on the western Kenyan county of
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'Born in Kenya': Obama's Literary Agent Misidentified His Birthplace in 1991
May 18, 2012— --
A possible source of the so-called "birther" issue--or at least a potential cause of the rumors that have dogged President Barack Obama--has been identified.
Obama's former literary agency misidentified his birthplace as Kenya while trying to promote the then-Harvard Law grad as an author in 1991.
According to a promotional booklet produced by the agency, Acton & Dystel, to showcase its roster of writers, Obama was "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."
Miriam Goderich edited the text of the bio; she is now a partner at the Dystel & Goderich agency, which lists Obama as one of its current clients.
"This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me--an agency assistant at the time," Goderich wrote in an emailed statement to Yahoo News. "There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii. I h
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Barack Obama: Life Before the Presidency
Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, 1961, in Hawaii. His parents, who met as students at the University of Hawaii, were Ann Dunham, a white American from Kansas, and Barack Obama Sr., a black Kenyan studying in the United States. Obama's father left the family when Obama was two and, after further studies at Harvard University, returned to Kenya, where he died in an automobile accident nineteen years later. After his parents divorced, Obama's mother married another foreign student at the University of Hawaii, Lolo Soetoro of Indonesia. From age six through ten, Obama lived with his mother and stepfather in Indonesia, where he attended Catholic and Muslim schools. “I was raised as an Indonesian child and a Hawaiian child and as a black child and as a white child,” Obama later recalled. “And so what I benefited from is a multiplicity of cultures that all fed me.”
Concerned for his education, Obama’s mother sent him back to Hawaii to live with her parents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, and to attend Hawaii’s prestigious Punahou Sc
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