Posted on 11/06/2008 7:58:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
Barack Obama’s election as US President has given rise to celebrations in many corners of the world. But in southern China, one of Obama’s little-known relatives is holding his own quiet celebrations, away from the glare of the media.
Obama’s half-brother Mark Ndesandjo — he is the son of Obama’s late father and his third wife Ruth Nidesand — has lived in Shenzhen in southern China for over six years, and on Wednesday, sent his congratulations to Obama immediately after his historic election as the first African-American President of the US, according to Shenzhen Daily.
Ndesandjo’s business partner and friend Sui Zhengjun was quoted as saying that Ndesandjo has “very high hopes about Obama’s concept of change”, and was “delighted — not only as Obama’s half-brother but as an American.”
Obama refers to Ndesandjo as “my brother” but the two are believed to have had a strained relationship, which Obama records in his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father.
Ndesandjo has gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid public attention, particularly after he was ‘outed’ by the media in July.
He is believed to have a long-time Chinese girlfriend, and his acquaintances describe him as being “big, strong and full of energy” and “a really easygoing guy” who “wears a hat over his shaven head”.
Ndesandjo, who gets his surname from his Kenyan mother, is associated with a Shenzhen-based company, Worldnexus Ltd, which provides corporate communications and website design services for Chinese firms seeking customers in English-speaking markets, principally the US.
Despite his reclusive nature, Ndesandjo has become something of a reluctant star in China, and a Chinese wine manufacturer even invited him to be its brand ambassador. But Ndesandjo is believed to have declined the offer; the Shenzen Daily quoted Sui as saying that Ndesandjo “preferred a quiet life.”
Earlier Chinese media reports have noted that Ndesandjo, a self-taught musician, offers piano lessons at an orphanage in Shenzhen. A 2004 article claimed that Ndesandjo wished to “bring the art of music to the orphans.”
Ndesandjo is known to have come to China in 2002 on a Sino-American culture exchange programme. As part of this programme, he worked in a Shenzhen foreign language school, and during that period, he established a non-profit organisation in China to help orphans.
According to Sui, before coming to China, Ndesandjo contacted several philanthropist agencies, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with a proposal, but had received no response. He then secured some donations from his MBA classmates in Emory and moved to China.
I am 0bama’s half brother too!
How many more are coming out of the woodwork?
ANOTHER one???
I need to see this family tree diagrammed!
How many brothers does this guy have?
The Obama guy has half brothers and half sisters, aunts and uncles, all over the world. What was his father, a jack rabbit? A family of jack rabbits?
Reject Obamunism.
Not that much paper in the world apparently. ;-)
They say that red neck family trees look like tumble weeds (I’m a red neck of sorts)...
But yeah... this is getting pretty ridiculous.
KFI 640am radio host Bill Hadel has chart on his website on KFI radio homepage Osmara Barek family tree sadly he took it down
It was something
“How many more are coming out of the woodwork?”
Took the words out of my mouth.
Obama’s father was a whore - that’s for sure.
Several half brothers, at least one half sister that we know of, three fathers of which at least one functioned as a mentor, and all of which had several wives. My head is spinning.
Huh? How is this guy an American? Both his parents are Kenyan....I don’t understand this one.
I know Obama’s dad also “Married” another white American woman; but this isn’t a child of that woman?
his mom was from kansas not kenya. the rest i don’t understand. it’s just bizzar.
How many f-ing relatives does this guy have?
I’m really glad the MSM worked so hard to give us an accurate, detailed background on him.
BTW, Auntie Zutini..or whatever her name is, was supposed to be able to talk to the press after Nov. 5.
will the secret service have to protect
obamao’s grandmo in kenya?
Well, the very trustworthy (/sarc) African Press International, says that 41 Kenyans are going to be living and working in the White House!
Its not a tree, its a thicket.
Kenya, my foot. Hussein has no family in Kenya. Blood relatives I mean. Those are in Illinois. This whole birth certificate issue is driving me insane.
Wonder if Zero'll round up all these peeps for a giant White House Family Christmas photo next year? The Kenyan Klampits go to Washington???
Indeed!
But as an earlier poster mentioned — how many of these brothers and sisters and grandparents and moms and dads around the world are going to have to be protected to prevent an international incident?
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