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<b>Sarah Onyango Obama</b> is the paternal step-grandmother of Democratic presidential candidate [[Senator]] [[Barack Obama]]. She lives in Kogela village, 40 miles north of western [[Kenya]]'s main town, [[Kisumu]], on the edge of [[Lake Victoria]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/09/wuspols1009.xml|title=Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives keep faith|first=Mike|last=Pflanz|publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=2008-01-11}}</ref> |
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Sarah Obama was the third wife of Obama's paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama. Although not a blood relation, Barack Obama nevertheless calls her "Granny", since she had a major role in raising his father.<ref name="chicsuntimes">{{cite web|url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545459,BSX-News-wotreeu09.article|title=Sarah Obama - 'Sparkling, laughing eyes'|first=Scott|last=Fornek|publisher=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|date=2007-09-09}}</ref> |
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Sarah Obama was just 16 when she married Obama's grandfather, an older man who was her father's friend. Arranged marriages and obedience to husbands -- enforced by beatings, if necessary -- were the plight of Kenyan women of her generation, she explained in Obama's book.<ref name="chicsuntimes"/> |
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[[Barack Obama]]'s father, [[Barack Obama, Sr.]], died in a car accident in 1982.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article3142143.ece|title=In Kenya, Barack Obama’s family prays for end to conflict|date=2008-01-07|first=Jonathan|last=Clayton|publisher=[[The Times]]}}</ref> |
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Sarah Obama recently publicly complained about the false reports that Senator Obama is a [[Muslim]]. She says that he is a [[Christian]], just as she is.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-03-05-obama-kin_N.htm|title=Obama's grandma slams 'untruths'|date=2006-03-05|publisher=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> |
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