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Akumu Nyanjoga

Birth	1926 in Karabondi ^Ω
Father:	Nyaoke
Husband:	Onyango Obama (1895-1979)
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Akumu Nyanjoga was born before 1926 in Karabondi to Nyaoke and is now 83 years of age. Akumu married Onyango Obama .

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3 Citations and remarks
4 Contributors
5 Notes

Children

Offspring of Onyango Obama and Akumu Nyanjoga (bef1926)
Name	Birth	Death
Sarah Obama
Auma Obama
Barack Obama Sr. (1936-1982)	1936 in Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Nyanza Province, Kenya	1982 in Kenya
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Habiba Akumu Obama

Also known as Akumu Nyanjoga.^[1] Barack Obama's paternal grandmother, and the second wife of Hussein Onyango Obama. She gave Onyango three children: daughters Sarah and Auma, and son Barak (Barack Obama's father).^[2] Her father was named Njango and she was born and raised in the Western Kenyan village of Karabondi.^[1]^[3] In his memoir Dreams from My Father, her grandson wrote that she was miserable in her marriage and abandoned her husband and children and subsequently married again and moved to presend-day Tanzania. Luos are given name related the circumstances of their birth and Akumu means mysterious birth, a conception after a birth, but before resumption of menses.^[4] She took the name Habiba upon her conversion to Islam. A photograph of her holding her son, Barack Sr, on her lap is on the cover of her grandson's memoir. (See image at right margin.)^[5]

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1939: Habiba Akumu Obama], Barack Obama's paternal grandmother. Photograph is included on the just jacket of Obama's memoirs Dreams from My Father. Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr., is on Habiba's lap.

1939: Habiba Akumu Obama], Barack Obama's paternal grandmother. Photograph is included on the just jacket of Obama's memoirs Dreams from My Father.

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Obama, Barack (1995, 2004), Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, New York: Three Rivers Press, pp. 394-395, ISBN 1-4000-8277-3
(pdf) The Obama Family Tree, Chicago Sun Times, 2007-09-09, pp. page 3B "Controversy" section, http://www.suntimes.com/images/cds/MP3/obamatree.pdf, retrieved 2009-11-1
Leo Odera Omolo (December 23, 2008), Figthing to get a share of the Obamas: The proposed Obama Snr museum has caused a big split in the family of the US President-elect right in the miiddle., Wordpress.com, http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/the-proposed-barrack-obama-snr-museum-has-caused-a-big-split-in-th-family-of-the-us-president-elect-right-in-the-middle, retrieved 2009-11-12

Ω Birth

Omolo reports that Akumu was from the village of Karabondi

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^ ^a ^b http://www.eastandard.net/archives/sports/InsidePage.php?id=1143998542
^ Dreams from My Father, pp. 408-412.
^ See Omolo.
^ {{{author}}}, Appendix:Luo surnames, [[Wikipedia:{{{publisher}}}|{{{publisher}}}]], [[Wikipedia:{{{date}}}|{{{date}}}]].
^ "Q&A ON THE NEWS", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 25, 2009, http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2009/02/25/questi0225.html, retrieved February 27, 2009

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