Kenya: Why Auma Holds Special Place in Her Famous Brother's Life

When Barack Hussein Obama, a lanky young American, came to Kenya in search of his roots in 1988, he was picked up from Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by his half-sister, Dr Auma Obama, in a battered Volkswagen Beetle -- a brand locally nicknamed "The Tortoise" at the time.

In a scene Mr Obama describes in his book Dreams from my Father, it is clear the car was worse for wear.

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