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The Education of Auma Obama is a 2011 German documentary on the life of Barack Obama's half-sister Auma Obama. It won the Best Diaspora Documentary Award at the Africa Movie Academy Awards. It was directed by Branwen Okpako. References
Sep 9, 2011 · The Education of Auma Obama: Directed by Branwen Okpako. With Elke Brenstein, Auma Obama, Kezia Obama, Marsat Osumba Onyango. The Education of Auma Obama is a captivating and intimate portrait of the U.S. president's older half-sister, who embodies a post-colonial, feminist identity.
In 2011, Obama was interviewed for Turk Pipkin 's documentary Building Hope and was the subject of a German documentary film The Education of Auma Obama. In 2017, Obama was honoured with the fourth International TÜV Rheinland Global Compact Award in Cologne. [13]
Sep 20, 2011 · Born of the same father but raised by a different mother in the family's Kenyan homeland, Obama's half-sister Auma describes a life of intellectual inquiry and social activism that mirrors...
Nov 5, 2012 · The Education of Auma Obama — Auma Obama grew up in the village of Kogelo, Kenya. She has lived in Germany and the UK, and is now a social worker and youth advocate in Nairobi.
The Education of Auma Obama is a captivating and intimate portrait of U.S. president Barack Obama’s older half-sister, who embodies a post-colonial, feminist identity in her native Kenya.
A captivating, intimate portrayal of the US president's Kenyan half-sister. Obama studied linguistics in Heidelberg, Germany, before enrolling in film school in Berlin, where she met director Okpako in the 1990s.
