Records at Maseno School show the bright side of President Barack Obama’s father

Setting the record straight: While accounts by relatives captured in President Obama’s autobiography indicate his father was a rebel, notes by teachers, pastors and other staff at the school depict a hardworking student.

Beneath the gum trees of Maseno area on the Equator on the edge of Kisumu and Vihiga counties and at the foot of imposing rocky hills lies Maseno School, Kenya’s foremost historical learning institution. It is the former school of Barack Hussein Obama, father of US President Barack Obama.