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Mama Sarah Obama: The village granny who brought hope to sleepy Kogello

The late Mama Sarah Obama passed on Monday morning. (Standard/Mbugua Kibera)

The late Mama Sarah Obama, the matriarch of the former US president Barrack Obama’s family in Kenya may be dead but the impact she has left behind on the once-sleepy and quiet Kogello village will be felt for decades.

The deceased rose from a village granny to an award-winning globe-trotting celebrity and became a force to reckon with following her grandson’s rise to the presidency of the United States of America.

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