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US President Barack Obama's Kenyan roots and relatives

Sarah Onyango Obama, seen here in Kenya in 2008, is Obama's oldest living relative, whom he calls "granny" (AFP Photo)

Nairobi, Kenya - President Barack Obama's family tree reaches from his father's tiny Kenyan village to the White House in a single generation.

The president's grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama was born in Kendu Bay, western Kenya, in 1895 (the family grave in the village of Kogelo says 1870).

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