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The Obamas: The clan that gave the World a leader

The grave of former US President Barack Obama's father, Barack Hussein Obama Senior, and his grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, are seen within their homestead in his ancestral village of Kogelo.[Reuters/Standard]

Mzee Hussein Onyango son of Obama Opiyo was born around 1895 in Kendu Bay South Nyanza currently known as Homa Bay County.

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