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Mama Sarah: An icon of education and family values

Mama Sarah Obama with some Widows and children she sponsors from Senator Obama Secondary school when they visited her home [PHOTO: JENIPHER WACHIE]

From the time America's 44th President Barack Obama saw his grandmother, he knew there was something extraordinary about her.

It was not her height. It wasn’t her educational background. It was not even the languages she spoke. It was something else. Something that lay within her humanness.

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