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Our father was abusive: Obama's half-brother
Updated On: 05 November, 2009 07:55 AM IST | | Agencies
US President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.
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US President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.
In his first interview, Mark Ndesandjo said he wrote Nairobi to Shenzhen in part to raise awareness of domestic violence.
"My father beat my mother and my father beat me, and you don't do that," said Ndesandjo, whose mother, Ruth Nidesand, was Barack Obama Sr's third wife.
"It's something which I think affected me for a long time, and it's something that I've just recently come to terms with."
In his first interview, Mark Ndesandjo said he wrote Nairobi to Shenzhen in part to raise awareness of domestic violence.
"My father beat my mother and my father beat me, and you don't do that," said Ndesandjo, whose mother, Ruth Nidesand, was Barack Obama Sr's third wife.
"It's something which I think affected me for a long time, and it's something that I've just recently come to terms with."
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