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Barack Obama Jnr would probably have grown up in Kenya and become a local politician had a series of letters from his late grandfather, Hussein Obama, not dissuaded his mother, Ann Dunham, from getting married in K’ogelo village, Siaya County.
According to Obama’s account, Dunham was scared that the pre-independence Mau Mau heroes would chop off her head. Obama’s maternal grandmother, Toot, had read about the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya.
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