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59-532: (Redirected from Rose Bud ) [REDACTED] Look up rosebud in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rosebud may refer to: Rose bud, the bud of a rose flower Arts [ edit ] The name of Jerry Garcia 's guitar from 1990 until his death in 1995. In the 1941 film Citizen Kane , the last words of Charles Foster Kane and an overall plot device. "Rosebud" ( The Simpsons ) , an episode of

118-553: A Splicer model in the video game BioShock Rosebud the Basselope , a character in the comic strip Bloom County . Places [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Rosebud, Victoria , Australia Canada [ edit ] Rosebud, Alberta , Canada Rosebud River , Canada United States [ edit ] Rosebud Indian Reservation , a Sioux reservation in South Dakota, U.S. Battle of

177-440: A euphemism for small buttplug with sparkling jewelry at bottom Rose-bud torch, a type of oxy-gas torch; see oxy-fuel welding and cutting Rosebud Releasing Corporation, a former American studio company that produced Evil Dead II Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Rosebud . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

236-440: A euphemism for small buttplug with sparkling jewelry at bottom Rose-bud torch, a type of oxy-gas torch; see oxy-fuel welding and cutting Rosebud Releasing Corporation, a former American studio company that produced Evil Dead II Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Rosebud . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

295-410: A British document, based on a 1928 ordinance, recording his grandfather as 35 years old. The date of the document was estimated to be about 1930, which would mean that his grandfather had been born c.  1895 . ) The Luo are given names related to the circumstances of their birth, and Onyango means "born in the early morning". Onyango was the fifth son of his mother, Nyaoke, who was the first of

354-479: A Muslim from Wagwe, near Homa Hills, South Nyanza. A photograph of her holding her son, Barack Sr., on her lap is on the cover of her grandson's memoir. (See image at right margin.) Aunt of U.S. President Obama and elder sister of his father, daughter of Hussein Onyango and his second wife, Habiba Akumu Obama. (She should not be confused with her stepmother Sarah Onyango Obama , also often called just Sarah Obama,

413-965: A Sioux reservation in South Dakota, U.S. Battle of the Rosebud , a battle on June 17, 1876 between the Lakota (Sioux) and Cheyenne Indian tribes and the U.S. and their Indian allies, the Shoshone and Crow tribes Rose Bud, Arkansas Rosebud, Alabama Rosebud, Georgia Rosebud, Warrick County, Indiana Rosebud, Washington County, Indiana Rosebud, Missouri Rosebud, Montana Rosebud, North Carolina Rosebud, South Dakota Rosebud, Texas Rosebud County, Montana People [ edit ] Sasha Obama , daughter of U.S. President Barack Obama, by U.S. Secret Service codename Rosebud Denovo (died 1992), street activist killed by police in Berkeley, California, U.S. Rosebud

472-920: A fashion icon. Barack and Michelle Obama have two daughters: Malia Ann ( / m ə ˈ l iː ə / ), born July 4, 1998, and Natasha Marian (known as Sasha / ˈ s ɑː ʃ ə / ), born June 10, 2001. They were both delivered at University of Chicago Medical Center by their parents' friend and physician Anita Blanchard. Sasha was the youngest child to reside in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr. arrived as an infant in 1961. In 2014, Malia and Sasha were named two of "The 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014" by Time magazine. Before his inauguration, President Obama published an open letter to his daughters in Parade magazine, describing what he wants for them and every child in America: "to grow up in

531-493: A folk-rock band circa 1970, featuring Judy Henske and Jerry Yester Rosebud (Fabergé egg) Rosebud (1975 film) , an American film Rosebud (2019 film) , a South Korean film The Rosebuds , an indie-rock band "Rosebud", a song by Ryan Adams from the album Cold Roses "Rosebud", a song by Sparks from their 1986 album Music That You Can Dance To " Rosebud ", a song by Manic Street Preachers from their album Know Your Enemy (2022 Remastered) Rosebud,

590-475: A genealogy team at Ancestry.com , published in 2012, stated that Obama is likely descended from the African slave John Punch through his mother's Bunch line, with generations of African Americans who gradually "married white" and became landowners in colonial Virginia. The Bunches later moved to Tennessee; in 1834 a daughter moved to Kansas, where Obama's mother was born four generations later. Obama's mother

649-519: A mission cook and as a local herbalist . He joined the King's African Rifles during World War I. In 1949, Onyango spent at least six months in Kamiti Prison . He was tried in a magistrates' court either on charges of sedition or being a member of a banned organization. Records do not survive; all such documentation was routinely destroyed after six years by the colonial administration. Onyango

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708-947: A panel with Freida Pinto and Meryl Streep moderated by CNN's Isha Sesay in Marrakesh and delivered a substantive amount of money to aid 62 million girls lacking access to formal education. They proceeded to Spain where Michelle delivered a message about the initiative. In August 2016, Sasha began working at Nancy's, a seafood restaurant in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts . In the fall of 2016, Malia went on an 83-day trip to Bolivia and Peru . In February 2017, Malia started an internship for Harvey Weinstein at The Weinstein Company film studio in New York City. In August 2017, Malia started attending Harvard University . Sasha graduated from Sidwell Friends in 2019 and began attending

767-654: A shelter animal. On April 12, 2009, it was reported that the Obamas had adopted a six-month-old Portuguese Water Dog given to them as a gift by Senator Ted Kennedy ; Malia and Sasha named the dog Bo . The White House referred to Bo as the First Dog . In 2013, the family adopted a second Portuguese Water Dog named Sunny . As a high school student, Malia Obama spent a portion of the summer in 2014 and 2015 working in television studios in New York and Los Angeles. She spent

826-401: A song by Manic Street Preachers from their album Know Your Enemy (2022 Remastered) Rosebud, the attack command word for Dr. Eric Mason's Doberman Pinschers on the television crime drama season 7, episode 4 of Columbo Rosebud, a cheat code featured in the video game The Sims from Maxis The default password in the tutorial hacking mission in the video game Uplink Rosebud,

885-599: A world with no limits on your dreams and no achievements beyond your reach, and to grow into compassionate, committed women who will help build that world". While living in Chicago, the Obamas kept busy schedules, as the Associated Press reported: "soccer, dance and drama for Malia, gymnastics and tap for Sasha, piano and tennis for both". In July 2008, the family gave an interview to the television series Access Hollywood . Obama later said they regretted allowing

944-467: Is Madelyn Dunham's younger brother and Obama's great-uncle. He was born in 1925. Payne served during World War II in the U.S. Army 89th Infantry Division . Obama has often described Payne's role in liberating the Ohrdruf forced labor camp . There was brief media attention when Obama mistakenly identified the camp as Auschwitz during the campaign. In 2009, Payne spoke about his war experience: Ohrdruf

1003-523: Is Maya Soetoro-Ng's father. After his divorce from Dunham, Soetoro married Erna Kustina. They had two children, Yusuf Aji Soetoro (b. 1981) and Rahayu Nurmaida Soetoro (b. 1984). Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama's half-sister, was born in Jakarta, Indonesia . She has a half-brother and half-sister, Yusuf and Aya Soetoro, from her father's second marriage. She is married to Canadian-American Konrad Ng, with whom she has two daughters, Suhaila and Savita. Maya Soetoro-Ng

1062-1016: Is a U.S. citizen. He was an assistant professor at the University of Hawaiʻi 's Academy of Creative Media. From 2011–2015, he was the Director of the Smithsonian's Asian Pacific American Program . Since 2016, he has been the Executive Director of The Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design in Honolulu. He studied philosophy at McGill University and cultural studies at the University of Victoria before getting his PhD degree from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa . Ng studies "how minority and diaspora communities use cinema and digital media to engage in artistic and cultural representation and preservation, and community mobilization". From 2011 to 2016, he served as director of

1121-613: Is a teacher in Hawaii. Konrad Ng is Barack Obama's brother-in-law. He is of Overseas Chinese descent, and his parents are from Kudat and Sandakan , two small towns in Sabah, Malaysia . Ng and his younger brother, Perry, were born and raised in Burlington, Ontario , Canada. Perry Ng works for the University of Ottawa . He married Maya Soetoro-Ng at the end of 2003 in Hawaii. They have two daughters, Suhaila and Savita. Konrad Ng

1180-638: Is an American lawyer, university administrator, and writer who served as the First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She is Barack Obama's wife, and was the first African-American first lady. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Michelle Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School , and spent her early legal career working at the law firm Sidley Austin , where she met her husband. She subsequently worked as

1239-648: Is buried at the Punchbowl National Cemetery . Madelyn Dunham (née Madelyn Lee Payne) was Obama's maternal grandmother who worked in banking and became vice president of a bank in Hawaii. Obama grew up with her and remembered that when he was a child, his grandmother "read me the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence and told me about the men and women who marched for equality because they believed those words put to paper two centuries ago should mean something." Charles Thomas Payne

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1298-601: Is divided between Seventh-day Adventists and Muslims. Also known as Akumu Nyanjoga and Sje. She was Barack Obama's paternal grandmother , and the second wife of Hussein Onyango Obama. She had three children with Onyango: daughters Sarah and Auma, and son Barack (Barack Obama's father). Her father was named Njango or Njoga, and she was born and raised in the Western Kenyan village of Karabondi . In his memoir Dreams from My Father , Obama wrote that Akumu

1357-441: Is the maternal grandfather of Barack Obama. He served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War II, enlisting just after the attacks on Pearl Harbor . He and his wife Madelyn Dunham raised Obama in Honolulu, Hawaii. In addition to Obama, Stanley is related to six US presidents: James Madison , Harry S. Truman , Lyndon B. Johnson , Jimmy Carter , George H. W. Bush , and George W. Bush . He died in Honolulu, Hawaii, and

1416-542: The 2012 Democratic National Convention , and again during the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , where she delivered a speech in support of the Democratic presidential nominee, and fellow first lady, Hillary Clinton . As first lady, Michelle Obama sought to become a role model for women, an advocate for poverty awareness, education, nutrition, physical activity and healthy eating, and became

1475-603: The Jok'Obama , a clan belonging to the Luo people, the nation's second-largest ethnic group. Linguistically, Luo is one of the Nilotic languages . The Obama family is concentrated in the western Kenyan province of Nyanza . Paternal grandfather to Barack Obama, he was born Onyango Obama. (One source gives 1870–1975 as his dates of birth and death, possibly based on his tombstone in his home village.) Barack Obama relates finding in 1988

1534-559: The Kendu Bay area many people were baptized into the church, including Onyango. When he later converted to Islam, he took the first name Hussein . She said that he passed on the name of Hussein to his children, but not the religion. Onyango is sometimes referred to as Mzee Hussein Onyango Obama. The word mzee (meaning "elder") is a Kenyan honorific . To this day the Obama family in Kenya

1593-769: The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center . Robert Wolfley, born in 1835, is one of Obama's maternal third great-grandfathers. He served as a private in Company A, 145th Ohio Infantry during the American Civil War . He died July 17, 1895, and is buried in the Olathe Memorial Cemetery in Olathe, Kansas . According to Ancestry.com 's research in 2012, using a combination of historical documents and yDNA analysis, genealogists found that John Punch ,

1652-669: The United Nations , is thought by historian Paul Heinegg to have likely been an African-American descendant of the Bunch family via South Carolina and Detroit , Michigan. Jonathan Singletary Dunham, born in 1640 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony , was one of Obama's maternal eighth great-grandfathers and is his earliest ancestor known to be born in North America. Obama's family in Kenya are members of

1711-474: The University of Michigan in the fall. Sasha transferred to the University of Southern California and graduated in 2023. Malia graduated from Harvard in 2021 and began working as a writer on the Amazon Prime Video television series Swarm . In spring 2023, Donald Glover confirmed that Malia was working on a short film for his production company; The Heart , starring Tunde Adebimpe ,

1770-753: The Anthropology Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Ann Dunham Soetoro Graduate Fellowships at the East–West Center (EWC) in Honolulu, Hawaii , are named in her honor. Obama has said that his mother was the dominant figure of his formative years. "The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics." Stanley Armour Dunham

1829-690: The Basselope, a character in the comic strip Bloom County Other uses [ edit ] PZ 87 The Rosebud , the fishing vessel that sailed to London in 1937 to protest the Newlyn Clearances The Rosebud (diner) , a diner in Somerville, Massachusetts Rosebud Formation , a geological unit in Nebraska and South Dakota Rosebud (Schooner) that ran aground in Port Phillip Bay Rosebud,

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1888-414: The Basselope, a character in the comic strip Bloom County Other uses [ edit ] PZ 87 The Rosebud , the fishing vessel that sailed to London in 1937 to protest the Newlyn Clearances The Rosebud (diner) , a diner in Somerville, Massachusetts Rosebud Formation , a geological unit in Nebraska and South Dakota Rosebud (Schooner) that ran aground in Port Phillip Bay Rosebud,

1947-688: The Rosebud , a battle on June 17, 1876 between the Lakota (Sioux) and Cheyenne Indian tribes and the U.S. and their Indian allies, the Shoshone and Crow tribes Rose Bud, Arkansas Rosebud, Alabama Rosebud, Georgia Rosebud, Warrick County, Indiana Rosebud, Washington County, Indiana Rosebud, Missouri Rosebud, Montana Rosebud, North Carolina Rosebud, South Dakota Rosebud, Texas Rosebud County, Montana People [ edit ] Sasha Obama , daughter of U.S. President Barack Obama, by U.S. Secret Service codename Rosebud Denovo (died 1992), street activist killed by police in Berkeley, California, U.S. Rosebud

2006-597: The United States , is a prominent American family active in law, education, activism and politics. Obama 's immediate family circle was the first family of the United States from 2009 to 2017, and are the first such family of African-American descent. His immediate family includes his wife Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha. Obama's wider ancestry is made up of people of Kenyan (Luo) , African-American , and Old Stock American (including originally English, Scots-Irish, Welsh, German, and Swiss) ancestry. Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964)

2065-400: The associate dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago and the vice president for Community and External Affairs of the University of Chicago Medical Center . Barack and Michelle married in 1992. Michelle campaigned for her husband's presidential bid throughout 2007 and 2008, delivering a keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention . She returned to speak at

2124-680: The attack command word for Dr. Eric Mason's Doberman Pinschers on the television crime drama season 7, episode 4 of Columbo Rosebud, a cheat code featured in the video game The Sims from Maxis The default password in the tutorial hacking mission in the video game Uplink Rosebud, a Splicer model in the video game BioShock Rosebud the Basselope , a character in the comic strip Bloom County . Places [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Rosebud, Victoria , Australia Canada [ edit ] Rosebud, Alberta , Canada Rosebud River , Canada United States [ edit ] Rosebud Indian Reservation ,

2183-498: The children to be included. Malia and Sasha both graduated from the private Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. , the same school that Chelsea Clinton , Tricia Nixon Cox , Archibald Roosevelt and the grandchildren of Joe Biden (when he was Vice President ) attended. The Obama girls began classes there on January 5, 2009; Malia graduated in 2016. Before the family moved to Washington in 2009, both girls attended

2242-401: The fighting through France, Italy and Germany. Eleanor Dunham, Obama's great-aunt, was the younger sister of Stanley Armour Dunham and Ralph Dunham. Married to Ralph Lee Berkebile. She was the youngest daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham Sr. and his second wife, Martha Mae Stonehouse. She retired from civil service as an executive secretary. Margaret Arlene Payne, Obama's great-aunt, was

2301-522: The first documented African slave in the Colony of Virginia , has been documented as likely an eleventh great-grandfather of Obama through his mother, Ann Dunham, and her Bunch ancestors. With intermarriage, there were eventually both white and African-American lines of descent from Punch; some Bunch descendants were classified as white by the early 18th century. Other Bunch descendants were considered free people of color . Ralph Bunche , American delegate to

2360-509: The five wives of his father, Obama. Barack Obama relates how his step-grandmother Granny Sarah ( Sarah Onyango Obama ) describes his grandfather: "Even from the time that he was a boy, your grandfather Onyango was strange. It is said of him that he had ants up his anus, because he could not sit still." As a young man, Onyango learned to speak, read and write in English, the language of British colonial administration in Kenya. Onyango worked as

2419-432: The free dictionary. Rosebud may refer to: Rose bud, the bud of a rose flower Arts [ edit ] The name of Jerry Garcia 's guitar from 1990 until his death in 1995. In the 1941 film Citizen Kane , the last words of Charles Foster Kane and an overall plot device. "Rosebud" ( The Simpsons ) , an episode of the television comedy The Simpsons , parodying Citizen Kane Rosebud (band) ,

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2478-504: The junior Barack. Aunt of U.S. President Obama and younger sister of his father, born to Hussein Onyango and second wife Habiba Akumu Obama. Sarah Onyango Obama was the third wife of Obama's paternal grandfather. She was known for short as Sarah Obama; she was sometimes referred to as Sarah Ogwel, Sarah Hussein Obama, or Sarah Anyango Obama. She lived in Nyang'oma Kogelo village, 30 miles west of western Kenya 's main town, Kisumu , on

2537-448: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosebud&oldid=1245832884 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages rosebud [REDACTED] Look up rosebud in Wiktionary,

2596-411: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosebud&oldid=1245832884 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Sasha Obama The family of Barack Obama , the 44th president of

2655-540: The most recent immigrant on the maternal side of Barack Obama's family tree. Fulmoth married Charlotte Holloway and raised a family which included three daughters (including Mary Ann). She and two of her sisters married three Dunham brothers. Kearney and his wife are buried in Fairview Cemetery in Labette County, Kansas . Descendants placed a headstone there in 2014. Around the same time, a photo of him

2714-441: The private University of Chicago Laboratory School . In his victory speech on the night of his election, President Obama repeated his promise to Sasha and Malia to get a puppy to take with them to the White House. The selection was slow because Malia is allergic to animal dander; the president subsequently said that the choice had been narrowed down to either a labradoodle or a Portuguese Water Dog , and that they hoped to find

2773-864: The subject and hoped to carry the secret to her grave". But her daughter Madelyn Dunham (Obama's maternal grandmother) "would turn her head in profile to show off her beaked nose, which along with a pair of jet-black eyes, was offered as proof of Cherokee blood". To date, no concrete evidence has surfaced of Cherokee heritage in the McCurry line. Obama's family said that his paternal great-grandmother, Ruth Dunham, died November 26, 1926, from ptomaine poisoning. She resided in Topeka, Kansas. A maternal 3rd great-grandfather of Barack Obama, nicknamed "Fully". Born c.  1829 in Moneygall , King's County , Ireland, he emigrated to Ohio via New York in 1850, making him

2832-669: The summer of 2016 working as an intern in the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spain . During the week June 26, 2016, to July 3, 2016, Michelle, Sasha, Malia, and Michelle's mother Marian Robinson went to Liberia to promote the Let Girls Learn Peace initiative, for which the United States has provided $ 27 million in aid. They met with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , the former president of Liberia and the first elected female head of state in Africa. Then they went to Morocco, where they had

2891-477: The television comedy The Simpsons , parodying Citizen Kane Rosebud (band) , a folk-rock band circa 1970, featuring Judy Henske and Jerry Yester Rosebud (Fabergé egg) Rosebud (1975 film) , an American film Rosebud (2019 film) , a South Korean film The Rosebuds , an indie-rock band "Rosebud", a song by Ryan Adams from the album Cold Roses "Rosebud", a song by Sparks from their 1986 album Music That You Can Dance To " Rosebud ",

2950-487: The third wife of Onyango.) Barack Obama Sr., father of Barack Obama, was the son of Onyango and his second wife Habiba Akumu Obama. Educated in the US at the University of Hawaiʻi and Harvard University , he returned to Kenya, where he became an economist with the government. He served in the ministries of transportation and finance. Barack Obama Sr. married three times, and he fathered a daughter and at least five sons including

3009-596: The visitor's gallery at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, when his great-nephew was nominated for President. He was the assistant director of the University of Chicago 's Library. Ralph Dunham was Stanley Dunham's older brother and Obama's great-uncle, who served in the U.S. Army as an assignment and personnel officer during World War II. He landed at Normandy's Omaha Easy Red Beach on D-Day plus four, and moved with troops in

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3068-472: The younger sister of Madelyn Dunham and Charles Payne. She was a professor of nutrition who taught at the University of Missouri , Kansas City, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1980–1990). She wrote numerous research articles and two books. Obama's family said that his maternal great-grandmother, Leona McCurry, was part Native American. She reportedly held that as a "source of considerable shame" and "blanched whenever someone mentioned

3127-734: Was announced as part of the Short Cuts program at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival . Written and directed by "Malia Ann" (her credited name), the film screened at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival . Marian Robinson , Michelle Obama's mother, resided in the White House during the Obama presidency. Barack Obama was raised by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham , and maternal grandparents Madelyn and Stanley Dunham . He often referred to his family during his candidacy and two terms as president. Obama's maternal heritage consists mostly of English ancestry, with smaller amounts of German , Scotch-Irish, Welsh, and Swiss ancestry. Research by

3186-557: Was born Stanley Ann Dunham. She became an anthropologist, specializing in economic anthropology and rural development. She earned her PhD degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and worked with the United States Agency for International Development , the Ford Foundation , and Women's World Banking, to promote the use of microcredit in order to combat global poverty. The Ann Dunham Soetoro Endowment in

3245-516: Was discovered. Barack Obama visited Moneygall in 2011. In 2014, " Barack Obama Plaza ", a service station and visitor center, was opened in Moneygall. In 2015, a photograph of Kearney was discovered and made publicly available. In 2018, statues of Michelle and Barack were erected in Moneygall. Lolo Soetoro, Javanese given name: Martodihardjo , was the second husband of Ann Dunham (married on March 15, 1965) and stepfather to Barack Obama. He

3304-465: Was in that string of towns going across, south of Gotha and Erfurt . Our division was the first one in there. When we arrived there were no German soldiers anywhere around that I knew about. There was no fighting against the Germans, no camp guards. The whole area was overrun by people from the camp dressed in the most pitiful rags, and most of them were in a bad state of starvation. Payne appeared in

3363-453: Was miserable in her marriage and abandoned Onyango Obama and her children with him. She subsequently married again and moved to Tanganyika, now Tanzania . Her name Akumu means "mysterious birth". Her mother conceived her after having given birth to another child and before resuming her menses . Akumu took the name Habiba upon her conversion to Islam in her second marriage, to Salmin Orinda,

3422-549: Was now an old man." Onyango was permanently scarred, suffering pain and requiring assistance in moving until his death. Although previously he had worked closely with the British, Onyango became bitterly anglophobic after his experiences in Kamiti Prison. According to his third wife, Sarah, Onyango had converted from tribal religion to Roman Catholicism early in life. When Seventh-day Adventist missionaries visited

3481-532: Was then subject to torture due to suspicions that he was an associate of the Mau Mau rebels . In his memoir, Obama recounted family descriptions of his grandfather's shocking physical state when released from prison: "When he returned to Alego he was very thin and dirty. He had difficulty walking, and his head was full of lice ." For some time, he was too traumatized to speak about his experiences. His wife told his grandson Obama: "From that day on, I saw that he

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