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Obama, George Hussein.
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Obama, George Hussein.
Obama, Barack -- Family.
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- Biography.
Community activists -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- Biography.
Urban poor -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- Biography.
Ex-convicts -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- Biography.
Inner cities -- Kenya -- Nairobi.
Crime -- Kenya -- Nairobi.
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Nairobi (Kenya) -- Biography.
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Homeland : an extrao...
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Homeland : an extraordinary story of hope and survival / George Hussein Obama with Damien Lewis.
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Obama, George Hussein.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010.
Subjects
Obama, George Hussein.
Obama, Barack -- Family.
Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- Biography.
Community activists -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- Biography.
Urban poor -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- Biography.
Ex-convicts -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- Biography.
Inner cities -- Kenya -- Nairobi.
Crime -- Kenya -- Nairobi.
Huruma (Nairobi, Kenya) -- Biography.
Nairobi (Kenya) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781439176177
1439176175
Description:
xxi, 294 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Contents:
The beginning -- The last son -- Our father -- Mudfish madness -- For Jennifer -- In the shadow of Mount Kenya -- The drinking den -- No second chance -- The gulf between us -- Dagoretti high -- Crash and burn -- They call me the Mamba -- In the ghetto -- The hood -- Gangland -- Imprisoned -- Absolute zero -- Survivor -- The awakening -- From the streets -- The brotherhood -- Barack, my brother -- Slaying the shame -- Epilogue -- Afterword.
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The remarkable memoir of George Obama, President Obama's Kenyan half brother, who found the inspiration to strive for his goal--to better the lives of his own people--in his elder brother's example. The father they shared died when George was six months old. George was a star pupil at a top boarding school, but after his mother and stepfather separated when he was fifteen, his life crashed and burned. He dropped out of school and soon gravitated to Nairobi's vast ghetto, where he discovered a special affinity with the slum kids, whom he helped survive amid grinding poverty and despair. In 2006, George met his older half brother, then-U.S. senator Barack Obama, for the first time since he was five. He was inspired by his older brother's example to try to change the lives of his people, the ghetto-dwellers, for the better.--From publisher description.
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