Obama half-brother talks of abuse(2)
The half-brother of U.S. president Barack Obama makes a rare appearance in southern China -- his home for the past seven years -- to launch a novel he says draws on his painful childhood under an abusive father.
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The half-brother of U.S. president Barack Obama makes a rare
appearance in southern China -- his home for the past seven years
-- to launch a novel he says draws on his painful childhood under
an abusive father.
Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo -- who had the same now deceased
father as the U.S. President - is promoting his fictional book
"Nairobi to Shenzhen."
(SOUNDBITE) (English) BROTHER OF U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA,
MARK OBAMA, SAYING:
"My mother used to say my father, he's a brilliant man but a
social failure. I remember times in my house when I would hear
screams and I would hear my mother's pain. And when I was a child,
I could not actually protect her."
It's Ndesandjo's first major public appearance -- coming just
weeks before the U.S. president travels to China for the first
time.
Jon Decker, Reuters.