President Obama and his half-sister Auma Obama are very close. As you can see in the photo, she is pictured standing behind him and served as one of the bridesmaids at his wedding to Michelle in 1992.
And much like her big brother the President, Auma is very ambitious and well read. As of July 2008, she was a development worker in Kenya. She studied German at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 1987. After her graduation at Heidelberg, she went on for graduate studies at the University of Bayreuth, earning a PhD degree in 1996. Her dissertation was on the conception of labor in Germany and its literary reflections.
Auma Obama has lived in London. In 1996 she married an Englishman, Ian Manners, although they have since divorced. They have a daughter named Akinyi (b. 1997). In 2011, Auma Obama was interviewed for Turk Pipkin’s documentary Building Hope and was the subject of a German documentary film The Education of Auma Obama.
Another photo below…
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