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Rita Auma Obama (born 1960) is a Kenyan-British community activist, sociologist, journalist, author, and half-sister of the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama.
3 days ago · The half-sister of former US President Barack Obama has been teargassed during anti-government protests in Kenya. Auma Obama was teargassed by police during an interview with US broadcaster CNN live on air. She told the station: “I can’t even see anymore, we’re being teargassed.”. A protester lobs a teargas canister at police during a ...
2 days ago · Auma Obama, an older half sister of former President Barack Obama, was tear-gassed on Tuesday while being interviewed live on CNN during protests in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. The protests were ...
2 days ago · Kenyan activist Auma Obama, the half-sister of former U.S. President Barack Obama, was among protesters tear-gassed on Tuesday during demonstrations outside the parliament building in Nairobi, a ...
2 days ago · By Char Adams. Barack Obama’s half-sister was hit with tear-gas on Tuesday in Kenya as she rallied with protesters demanding that legislators vote against a bill to raise taxes. Auma Obama, a ...
3 days ago · Auma Obama, a Kenyan activist and the half-sister of former president Barack Obama, was among protestors who were tear-gassed during a protest in Nairobi against a new finance bill. Obama, a ...
3 days ago · Former US President, Barack Obama (C) with his step-grandmother Sarah (R) and half-sister, Auma (L) arrive to unveil a plaque on July 16, 2018 during the opening of the Sauti Kuu Resource Centre ...
Dr Auma Obama was born and raised in Kenya. She studied in Germany, obtaining a Master's Degree at the University of Heidelberg, completing her doctorate studies at the University of Bayreuth with a doctoral thesis and graduated at the Berlin Film and Television Academy. read more.
May 4, 2012 · Barack Obama and Auma Obama, his older half-sister (by one year) finally met face to face in 1984 when they were both in their 20s. The President later brought Auma to public attention when...
Dec 1, 2018 · Between 1990 and 1997, Auma Obama, half-sister of Barack Obama, studied at the Berlin Film and Television Academy (DFFB). For her final project, Obama wrote and directed All That Glitters (1993), a short film about Wendo, a Kenyan woman living in Bayreuth, married to a white German man and mother to an Afro-German daughter named Achieng.