Sarah Obama, Barack Obama’s Kenyan’s grandmother, dies at 99

They may not have been related by blood, but the former US president Barack Obama he considered her his grandmother and had visited her many times.

The reason for Sarah Obama, who died this morning at the age of 99 in a hospital in Kisumu, western Kenya, as announced by her daughter.

“She went to find her Creator. He died this morning, “said Marshat Onyango, explaining that he was hospitalized without specifying the reason, as broadcast by AMPE.

Born in 1922 on the shores of Lake Victoria, “Mama Sarah” as she was called, was the third wife of Hussein Onyango Obama, the paternal grandfather of the former US president. He, a practitioner, local official and former British Army soldier who fought in Myanmar, died in 1975.

In Kenya, “Mama Sarah” became famous in 2006 It was visited by Barack Obama, who was then an Illinois senator.

After being elected President of the United States in 2008, Sarah’s humble home in the village of Kogelo, about 500 miles (500 km) northwest of Nairobi near the Ugandan border, became a tourist attraction and was guarded by guards and barbed wire.

In 2009 the Kenyan government declared Congolese part of its protected, national heritage.

During his visit to Kenya in 2015, Barack Obama had met with his family in Nairobi. He visited them again in 2018, this time in Kogelo, after the end of his term in the presidency.

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