Ex-US President Barack Obama 's family perhaps remains one of the most complicated at least if 'Dreams of My Father' autobiography is anything to go by.
With the mother, An Durham having divorced his father, Barack Obama Snr, the young Obama's early life was one of the most complicated.
And in 2009, almost a year after clinching presidency in US, Obama met his other half brother, Mike Okoth Obama, who was born four years after his birth in 1961.
But the meeting at Beijing took only five minutes with the two bothers sharing their early life experiences in the Chinese capital.
“It’s no secret that my father was a troubled person. Anybody who’s read my first book, ‘Dreams from My Father’, knows that, you know, he had an alcoholism problem and that he didn’t treat his families very well,” Obama told Reuters.
He added: "And, you know, so, obviously, that’s just a sad part of my history and my background. But it’s not something that I — I spend a lot of time brooding over.”
Mike's mother, Ruth Baker, a Jew living in Boston, married Obama Snr in 1964 and moved with him to Nairobi where she has lived to date.
Later in 1972, the marriage would break with Mike living in denial, cursing his father throughout those years before being convinced by Obama to reconnect with the family.
#historynow