Posted on 11/03/2009 8:11:26 PM PST by Steelfish
Title:Obama’s brother pushes Chinese imports on US.
Authors:Michael Sheridan in Shenzhen, China.
Source:Sunday Times, The; 07/27/2008.
Accession Number:7EH0924545703
Section: Overseas news, pg. 27 - News
THE half-brother of Barack Obama has been helping to promote cheap Chinese
exports in a low-profile business career while the Democratic senator has been
winning worldwide fame in his race for the White House.
He has gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid public attention and his family
links remain unknown to most of his acquaintances in Shenzhen, a boom town in
southern China where he has lived since 2002.
Mark Ndesandjo, who is in his early forties, is the son of Obama’s late father
and his third wife, an American named Ruth Nidesand who runs the upmarket
Madari kindergarten in Nairobi. Obama refers to him simply as “my brother” and
says he was the only uncontested heir when their father, a Kenyan, died in a
car crash in 1982.
However, the two men held sharply diverging views on their African heritage
and while Obama chose to live in the glare of publicity, his half-brother
submerged himself in the most cosmopolitan city in China.
Friends say he has a Chinese girlfriend in her twenties from Henan, a poor,
landlocked province that sends millions of migrants to the coastal cities.
He lives in Nanshan, a brash new district of high-rises and streets teeming
after dark with young migrants eating spicy street food and cramming into bars,
karaoke joints and massage parlours.
“He is big, strong and full of energy, speaks good Chinese and is a really
easy-going guy,” said a Chinese friend. “He always wears a hat over his shaven
head. I believe he has several consultancy jobs.”
Chinese officials said there were questions about his internet-based company,
WorldNEXUS. It has provided corporate communications and website design to
Chinese firms seeking customers in English-speaking markets, of which the
United States is the biggest.
WorldNEXUS is not registered to conduct business in Shenzhen and officials at
the city’s commercial administration bureau said this raised potential problems
with issues of tax and compliance by its customers.
The company’s website promises “increased communication efficiency” to clients
and lists exporters of electronics and machine parts among its contracts. It
lists an office address in the west of the city but no such building could be
located.
Contacted by The Sunday Times last week, Ndesandjo said: “Thanks for your
interest. However, I am not giving interviews at this time.” Ndesandjo told a
Chinese businessman that WorldNEXUS was not trading, saying that he hoped to
“restart the business next year” and adding that the website was “out of date”.
Any family connection between the presidential contender and the flood of
Chinese imports that are blamed by many Americans for destroying jobs could be
politically embarrassing. Obama takes a populist position on trade with China,
calling in December for a ban on toys from the country until safety checks were
introduced.
Although the kinship between the two men is bound to cause a sensation in
China - as in their father’s native Kenya, no distinction is drawn between full
and half brothers - they do not appear to be close.
Ndesandjo, who has degrees from Brown University, a masters in physics from
Stanford and an MBA from Emory, does not share Obama’s emotional view of his
roots.
Obama painted a disappointed picture of his half-brother in his 1995 memoir,
Dreams from My Father. At a rather tense lunch, Obama quoted “Mark” - his
family name is not given in the book - as saying Kenya was “just another poor
African country” to which he felt little attachment.
Obama wrote that on parting, “we exchanged addresses and promised to write,
with a dishonesty that made my heart ache”.
Two decades after that encounter, the extended Obama family is bound to come
under scrutiny as the presidential election nears.
Copyright (C) The Sunday Times, 2008
Keziah Obama: My life with Obama Senior
The Standard ^ | 11/11/2008 | John Oywa
Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:59:50 PM by Red Steel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362788/posts
“...”I remember escorting him to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, then known as Embakasi airport,” she says.
“He asked me to take care of our only child then, Malik Abongo, who was six years old. I was pregnant with our second child — Rita Auma.”
Kezia says: Malik Abongo ‘Roy’ Obama WAS SIX YEARS OF AGE WHEN OBAMA SENIOR LEFT KENYA.
Maybe she meant six months old. How old is Kezia? I thought that she was born about 1940/41. If so, and Roy was six years old at that time, then she would have been only about 12 or 13 years old when he was born. Barack Sr. was born in 1936.
Name: Abongo Malik Obama
Birth Date: Mar 1958
Address: 7507 Mandau Rd #201, Greenbelt, Maryland 20770-0801 (1993)
[7244 Landover Rd #C, Hyattsville, Maryland 20785-0701 (1993)]
Name: Roy A Obama
Birth Date: Mar 1958
Phone Number: 773-5831
Address: 7507 Maudan Rd #201, Greenbelt, Maryland 20770-0801 (1993)
[7244 Landover Rd #C, Hyattsville, Maryland 20785-0401 (1988)]
[8623 Flame Av #4, Silver Spring, Maryland 20912]
Just off the top of my head, without links for the time being, the story is that Kezia met Obama Sr when she was 16. Obama Sr left school in 1953 at the age of 17. Married Kezia when he was 18.
Supposedly left Kenya in 1959 at the age of 23.
Thanks justiceseeker93.
This article says she was 67 in 2008.
that is a good link.
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this might be part of the problem with Malik’s age (Note the 1964 date):
SECOND MARRIAGE
In 1964, during the famous airlifts organized by late Planning Minister Tom Mboya, Obama Senior left for the United States for further studies. “I remember escorting him to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, then known as Embakasi airport,” she says. “He asked me to take care of our then only child, Malik Abongo, who was six years old. I was pregnant with our second - Rita Auma.”
http://worldmeets.us/thestandardkenya000005.shtml
She’s following the ‘official’ storyline.
http://www.eastandard.net/obama/InsidePage.php?id=1143998493&cid=530&;;
“Okanda removes a brown card from one of them. “This one belonged to Barack Obama Sr. He joined the school in 1950 and left in 1953,” he explains.”
Born in 1936. Left school at 17 in 1953.
Married Kezia at the age of 18 in 1954.
She says she was 16 when they met and married shortly afterwards.
That would make her birthdate around 1938.
In 2009 she would be 71 years of age.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362788/posts
“She was only 16 and attending school then and had no idea that the young man courting her would one day father the future president of the most powerful nation on earth. Keziah says Obama Senior was so handsome and stylish that she could not resist his advances that Christmas night in 1956.
“He asked to dance with me during the party and I could not turn him down. He picked me from several girls present. A few days later, I married him,” Keziah says, her face beaming with nostalgia.”
Do the math. If they met when she was 16 and married when he was 18, that meeting took place in 1954.
“At 18, he married a girl called Kezia. But Obama Snr was more interested in politics and economics than his family and his political leanings had been brought to the notice of leaders of the Kenyan Independence movement.”
The ‘Kenyan Independence Movement’?
you’re right; another site said there was a 10 yr age difference between Malik & Auma.
They all live in world where you can pick your birth date, your age, your name(s), have several spellings of your name(s); your address(es); your work history. It’s a veritable parallel universe.
A world where you trade 14 cows for one cow. ;-)
Here is another discrepancy (this discrepancy is corfirmed from other independent sources I came across today). On two separate occasions Malik has said that he and BHO were best men at each other’s weddings.
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Malik and his brother Barack were best men at each other’s weddings. According to the Daily Nation, Barack Obama brought Michelle to Kenya three years later, and they met with Malik again while Barack was introducing Michelle to many other new relatives. The Nation further reported that Malik’s current wife Fauziah Anyango had yet to meet her brother-in-law Barack Obama as of 2004.
http://wikibin.org/articles/malik-abongo-obama.html
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Aug 2004
The prospective Senator’s sister-in-law Fauziah Anyango, wife to his step-brother Malik Obama, told the Sunday Nation that she was eager to meet her heroic in-law.
Said she: “I have not met him but I pray that he wins the Senate seat. His victory will not be for us, but for Kenya and Africa.”
http://allafrica.com/stories/200408160533.html
HA! Sometimes it’s funny, but sometimes it’s dead serious. I want to draw your attention to something else the teacher at the Maseno school is quoted as saying:
http://www.eastandard.net/obama/InsidePage.php?id=1143998493&cid=530&;
...Okanda removes a brown card from one of them. “This one belonged to Barack Obama Sr. He joined the school in 1950 and left in 1953,” he explains.
Obama Sr — Index No 3422 — joined the school with his elder brother, Joseph, who left in 1951 for unexplained reasons...
In my previous comment there is a reference to The Kenya Independence Movement. That’s polite-speak for Mau Mau Uprising. Brother Joseph’s ‘unexplained reasons’ - might be explained right there...the mau mau movement, although commenced in the late 1940’s when the grandfather was jailed, ran through the entire decade of the 50’s.
makes sense; FRED NERKS: this same url I posted is also where I had seen this early date for a BHO Kenya visit (1983). I knew I had seen it before but I could never relocate:
A Sunday Nation team that set out to trace Obama’s roots was surprised to find that, unknown to many, Obama has actually been to this village twice. First in 1983, when he had come to mourn his late father, Barack Hussein Obama, who had died in Nairobi in 1982; and again in 1995 when he brought home his young bride to show her his roots.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200408160533.html
BUT, then this.... Malik says he first met his brother in Washington in 1985...
Still, Malik Obama prefers the village to the fast-paced capital, Nairobi, where he grew up. He runs an electronics shop in a town a half-hour drive away, and works as a consultant in Washington for a few months each year.
It was in the United States, in 1985, that he first met his 43-year-old half-brother Barack.
“He was best man at my wedding and I was best man at his,” said Malik, who likes to point out that his younger brother’s name is actually Barack Obama II, because their father was the original Barack Obama.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6333496
And something else that I found odd:
http://www.eastandard.net/obama/InsidePage.php?id=1143998493&cid=530&;
...Otula says Obama Sr went straight to the US from Maseno, to start his academic tour. He later married an American woman, the mother of Senator Obama...
Two possible scenarios here: either he DID leave Kenya and went to the US shortly after leaving school...which would place Obama Sr on the mainland US BEFORE he showed up in Hawaii in 1959...
Or the teacher, not having heard the marriage and the 14 cow dowry story, was trying to cover for Obama Senior’s ‘interest’ in the Kenya Independence Movement’ (read mau mau.)
Either situation would account for the missing five years we keep coming up against.
excerpt:
Hussein Onyango was arrested in 1949 and jailed for two years in a high security prison as the British struggled to quell one of Africa’s bloodiest and most desperate rebellions against colonial rule.
snip
The movement had its roots in the Kikuyu tribe, but other tribes in Kenya - such as the Luo tribe, which Mr Onyango was part of - sympathised with the independence movement, especially once British anger turned on all Kenyans.
British fear became such that some academics have argued their response to the uprising only radicalised Kenyans who may otherwise not have felt as strongly about the violent path to independence.
One scholar, John Lonsdale, wrote: ‘If one were treated as Mau Mau by police, it looks as if it seemed prudent to become one.’
Mr Onyango, according to Mrs Onyango’s account, was one of those embittered against the British, though there is no suggestion he actually became a Mau Mau fighter after his imprisonment.
Mr Obama refered briefly to his grandfather’s imprisonment in his best-selling memoir, Dreams from My Father, but stated that his grandfather was ‘found innocent’ and held only for ‘more than six months’.
The Mau Mau uprising officially lasted from 1952 until 1960, though the insurgency was growing in the years before that when Mr Onyango was arrested...
We discussed this before; it is in African Colonel; just looked at it again in the last few days; BHO, Sr went to clerk in Nairobi after Maseno. I recently came across additional info on this also, but haven’t posted it yet.
I mean, African Colonial; Also.... this phrase, Luo activist and a militant Muslim,” is everywhere (just Google), but main sources have been scrubbed. Here is one that was scrubbed but cached. Apparently IBD did editorial with that phrase (also scrubbed). Wonder how close he might have been to Odinga or Odinga’s cause.
Wonder also what kind of “consulting” did Malik use to do in Washington.
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Obama’s older brother still lives there. Abongo “Roy” Obama is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must “liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture.” He urges his younger brother to embrace his African heritage.
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