{"id":1670,"date":"2021-03-29T14:53:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T14:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countysplash.co.ke\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2021-03-29T14:53:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T14:53:57","slug":"former-us-president-barack-obama-mourns-mama-sarah-obama-in-a-glowing-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonnews.co.ke\/?p=1670","title":{"rendered":"Former US President Barack Obama mourns Mama Sarah Obama in a glowing tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By\nBarack Obama in USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My\nfamily and I are mourning the loss of our beloved grandmother, Sarah Ogwel\nOnyango Obama, affectionately known to many as \u201cMama Sarah\u201d but known to us as\n\u201cDani\u201d or Granny. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born\nin the first quarter of the last century, in Nyanza Province, on the shores of\nLake Victoria, she had no formal schooling, and in the ways of her tribe, she\nwas married off to a much older man while only a teen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She\nwould spend the rest of her life in the tiny village of Alego, in a small home\nbuilt of mud-and thatch brick and without electricity or indoor plumbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When our family had difficulties, her homestead was a refuge for her children and grandchildren, and her presence was a constant, stabilizing force. When I first traveled to Kenya to learn more about my heritage and father, who had passed away by then, it was Granny who served as a bridge to the past, and it was her stories that helped fill a void in my heart. <\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

 There she raised eight children, tended to her\ngoats and chickens, grew an assortment of crops, and took what the family\ndidn\u2019t use to sell at the local open-air market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although not his birth mother, Granny would raise my father as her own, and it was in part thanks to her love and encouragement that he was able to defy the odds and do well enough in school to get a scholarship to attend an American university. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Former US President Barack Obama and his family. His grandmother, Mama Sarah Obama has died aged 99 years – Photo\/Barack Obama Twitter<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When our family had difficulties, her homestead was a refuge for her children and grandchildren, and her presence was a constant, stabilizing force. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I first traveled to Kenya to learn more about my heritage and father, who had passed away by then, it was Granny who served as a bridge to the past, and it was her stories that helped fill a void in my heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During\nthe course of her life, Granny would witness epochal changes taking place\naround the globe: world war, liberation movements, moon landings, and the\nadvent of the computer age. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\nwould live to fly on jets, receive visitors from around the world, and see one\nof her grandsons get elected to the United States presidency. And yet her\nessential spirit\u2014strong, proud, hard-working, unimpressed with conventional\nmarks of status and full of common sense and good humor\u2014never changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\nwill miss her dearly, but celebrate with gratitude her long and remarkable\nlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ends <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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