A new book traces Barack Obama’s Kenyan family back twenty-three generations, or roughly half a millennium. Peter Firstbrook was a documentary filmmaker for our partner, the BBC, for 25 years, is the author of “The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family.” Using oral testimony from family and historical documents, Firstbrook uncovered some fascinating details of the president’s family, including questions about how President Obama’s father died.
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