Step-grandmother of former US President Barack Obama has died in Kenya at the age of 99, according to local radio CapitalFM.
Sarah Obama is the third wife of Barack Obama's paternal grandfather. Although she is not a blood relative to the President of the United States, he always treated her with warmth and called her " The last time he visited her house in the village of Kogelo was in July 2018..
" She passed away at the Kisumu City Hospital..
Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga called Sarah Obama "
Obama was born in 1961 in Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii and has never lived in Kenya.. His parents, white American Stanley Ann Dunham and Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama Sr., separated in 1964, after which the father of the future president returned to his homeland, where he worked in public service.. Obama Sr. died in 1982 in a car accident.