Being Barack Obama's brother: George Obama in the slums | VPRO Documentary | 2013

all the people also respect you a lot because your

brother

is the president of the United States, what happened when he became president for you, so blessed means of course that you skip them constantly famous and at the same time want well, your private life changed your life has changed, yes that is everywhere, they can't just be

brother

s and sisters, they can't be chosen, but their family bond lasts a lifetime. I'm not in the shadows, Jimmy, I'm in the shadows, sometimes they are your trusted friends. Sometimes they get to NASA Branson has the richest brother in the world, no one, Obama doesn't give me money, very classic, but what is it like when your brother or sister is a megastar, an icon this week?

George Obama's brother rocks Nairobi. the city the city of Kenya now we have a lot of corn and you can get a land to be home to 10 people, so it is better in the countryside, the land is there, you don't take it with anyone, many happy, George Obama, half more young. Barack Obama's brother when he was born in I he belonged to a well-to-do middle class family, but now he lives in the

slums

of this gigantic city since his brother became president of the United States. George has been quite busy with the people in his slum. to him for advice and counsel, after all, he is an Obama and has white friends like Kevin, the playwright from England, you never know what his White House connections might lead to.

No, I don't pray behind your back, honey, no, I don't. pray five times a day for the Big Bang, no, I mean, you know I've been honest about this before you know I'm going to completely respect, you know, the only thing Christians and Muslims differ on is the nonsense because um, this would be one of these. It's just a good, which means you've cornered God, you'll call him Allah, you'll call him on your side, so the world's problems are not simple, yeah, I was supposed to go to the Middle East, all about Sanga, all the tonga program, they call him the president of the

slums

, in any case, the name Obama helps to raise some money, together with his cousin Raja Obama and his friend Adan George they are trying to create the Obama Foundation to help orphans from the slums, because Haruma's children should be able to swim too. close and skate, why don't you tell yourself what happens living more than what you find?

Dan has known George since he was 15, when they were both still gangsters. He remembers how George's life changed the moment his brother became president after his brother arrived. the president of the United States is like he started to become famous, people now want to know who George is, everyone when they look at him, George Obama, they see who is now famous, they can notice that too in the area, yeah, yeah, wherever that we go. The question is George Obama, yes, everyone wants to meet him, it's very difficult, even sometimes when he walks we call him George Obama and we see everyone shouting at him.

I think that's unfair to him, maybe by

being

with him he can help me and he helps in what I'm doing, that's why I'm getting closer to him, so if we work together, I think what we're doing a lot of people between you guys and we'll get help, it had to happen, you see me, Madonna fan in common, it happened when I needed to borrow money here, but it's all pretty incredible, just like the fact that your brother became president tonight is an honor particular for me because, let's face it, my presence in this scenario is quite unlikely.

My father was a foreign student. and grew up in a small village in Kenya he grew up herding goats he went to school in a tin roof hut his father my grandfather was a cook and domestic servant for the British, but my grandfather had bigger dreams for his son through work hard work and perseverance my father got a scholarship to study in a magical place, the United States, that shone like a beacon of freedom and opportunity for many who had come before. It's almost a Shakespearean drama. One of the brothers is the most powerful man in the world and the other lives between the two. the poorest in the world, how is it possible?

Kevin Fegan asked himself the same question when he first heard his story. The British playwright traveled to Kenya for ten days. He followed George's every move in the slums. He wrote Obama the Mamba, which became a track in London theatres. and Georgian Kevin became lifelong friends, what is he doing in the community on the surface? It doesn't look like anything, you know, she wanders around, but you know, Georgia Varma wanders around the slums, you know, she's a force that's trying to, you know, using the he's trying to use Obama's name for something good in those communities, so you know he will do what he can to help others and you can see that he is genuine, you can see that he is genuine not only by witnessing him in the first city and on high. but from the response of his close friends they really love him and care about him and he you know needs care because you know he is a problematic character, it hurts what his problematic future is, he is a problematic character because he is the brother of the majority. powerful man in the world it is a blessing and it is a curse and it has to do with both white people and the blessing is a blessing because that can bring you attention it can bring you money it can bring you power so it is a curse because there is a great expectation on your shoulders to deliver what are you going to deliver? you have the name you are the great man you know we are going to deliver and that is why you know it is a difficult thing to live with lucky Sam tomorrow I sassani ganja with fever I am choking make this dish easily now - lucky - neow - neow I feel great for today here Oh lolli, sit for 20 no trade for college developer no, yeah, no fan Nana was assigned to Ozzy, you could have left I acted when I met you, I see what will be drawn beautiful because I'm the main moment in a significant moment, Don't you dare err on the side of caution so we can see what he will do.

George's neighbor takes care of her orphaned grandson, but there are also many orphans without grandmothers who wonder. the slums and small groups survive thanks to the charity of their neighbors at night they sleep in their own small cabin sharing a mattress between 10:00 George tells us it's time to box there are various types of boxes that disrespect him to all the people who have died from serious illness Raja Obama is George's cousin his mother Aunt Sarah is the sister of George and Barack's father his father had four wives Barack was born from his marriage to an American woman who Barack Obama jr. . who is now the president of the us George is the last child of his marriage to an African woman and gave birth to two judges, while George pursues his career abroad too much, his sister settled in the slums of Nairobi and that's how the Obamas ended up here, but in those days this world was still a much less chaotic and vast Kenya's population has doubled in the last 20 years and in 30 years the slums have become a complex and charming sprawl of narrow streets and shacks. , garbage dumps, slaughterhouses, supermarkets, car washes, shops, bars, cemeteries and anything else you're supposed to need in It's a city and the noise never stops, but when you live here you get used to it.

George has even grown to love her. The people he cares about most live here, like Aunt Sarah, but she passed away. George never really knew his father, except his cousin Rajah, that is. older than George Barack Obama Sr. is your role model managed to go to school managed to go to Harvard University yes, there was a time when we used to relate to what my uncle was able to achieve and when an opportunity came, I was on my toes scholarship and I said wow, now I'll be like my uncle and he was an economist and I said no, I don't want to do anything else.

I want to be an economist. George II I know that he would be your role model as when I was a child he died when I was six months old but my role model was my stepfather, he was wait, yes, but when he abandoned us, I lost my way, better of the and they turned to I decided to drop out of school, hmm, that's how it was. It's magical or something, you know, but it's due to peer pressure. I decided to dedicate myself to crime, but crime landed me in prison. Human, they abandoned their army. He said that he doesn't pay so it's like it's peer pressure which is a really bad action because he made me do things like I am when I was a kid.

I never dreamed of that. Hmm because I'm an AM kid. I dreamed of finishing university prison. It is awful. You have lice. Hold on to the trilogy. They sleep in one room, there are 140 people left that small on the sides, there is no mattress, there is no blog, that is false, in reality, that is what they did to me, miracle worker of the person of the crime, that will be life, if they catch you, here they go, there, I can't. Sit there for nine months and it was hectic. They stood up. The people in prison survived.

If I. How do you know your job? food in prison you buy it in prison or the policeman among the gays comes into the kitchen you pay the money to get more food yes why don't they give you enough food because they also need money the prisoner also needs money So it's a cycle, please , you have to update them because the police can kill you at any time and we have shown that they have killed many people and after that they put a gun and said that we at any time so you must be afraid of them because they may not. i got grudges and mother lizards another kid was just smoking pot and then the police stopped him yeah i tried to stop him and the kids just started running he was scared so yeah he was scared the police would shoot him and then when he I was left lying there, they put a gun on the road.

He was carrying those three friends of mine, yes, we never saw them, they were arrested by the police, but until now we have never seen the bodies so that they take him away and then they kill you. They put the drill in a river where there are many crocodiles there they eat me no one will ever see George Obama lives in a country where people are told that criminals are fed to crocodiles where the same small piece of slum land is sold to ten different people where prisoners buy food with money they steal from other prisoners and where country people send their children to the city to earn money in the slaughterhouses of Kenya's largest gold market once someone started seeing blood when you get used to blood when it's effective mentally and that's why you see you had something sometimes they kill a man here people get stabbed all that kids are used to blood so once even if he stabs you he won't likes him, he sees it's like, um, he thinks it's a goat or something, you know he's used to blood, all that stuff, so it's like, um, it's a normal thing for them, you know what a charge the whole thing is. accident of birth, you know, if George had been born in a barracks, life could have become Barack Obama, that's an interesting question if Barack Obama had been born in George's life, could he have become George?

Could he have been a gangster? Could he have been that reformed gangster character? It's an interesting question, you know, all I want to do is put that question out there because it brings up the nature-nurture that we get by accident of birth you know where you're born you don't choose where you're born or who you're born with that happens and then where you go there but that starting point matters a lot matters a lot you tell people in the developing world it doesn't matter that you were born in the first world it doesn't matter but I think what's been really good about these few The last few days is the way they came about the commonalities between you and it feels good that we should sit down and try to write a message to the world from a rumor hmm, the phrase it is better to die on your feet than on your knees. and actually that's the true reflection of what's going on, you would support not showing up much, that's true with most young boys, yes we have lost young girls, not just in the institution of force and Even they are in crime, that's why we try to get the children out of there, we prefer to sacrifice the little we have so that they receive some education, so I said: "Show them to do something, but something that is productive." I was thinking why not write the idea of ​​the world, but why not write a letter directly to Obama, he is so famous?

Before the letter reaches you, pass the crayon. Appears. Go through this guy. I don't know Syria. Has it. It has North Korea. It has all those things. He sits down and I come. He should. See how to report it and then decide what I don't leave is if I write to leave it's like I'm begging I don't beg I don't bet I hit it's about addressing no it's not addressing it's a burden so how well do you do it? the brothers know each other George met his brother on two occasions, once when he was 15 years old and another when Barack became a senator and came to visit Kenya after a family reunion.

Barack invited George to a hotel in Nairobi. Barak wanted to exchange memories and talk about his father, but when George arrived at the hotel he was told that his date had to be cancelled. Suddenly an emergency meeting arose. You know, when I look back, I only remember my father for one month in my entire life.when I was 10 years old and it wasn't until much later in life that I realized that he had given me my first basketball and it was shortly after that I became a basketball fan and he took me to my first jazz concert and it was shortly after that I became really interested in jazz and music.

So what it makes you realize is how much of an impact they have on you, even if it's just a month, but I think probably the most important thing was the absence of it. I think it contributed to me really wanting to be a Good Dad because I think not having him there made me say to myself, "You know what I want to make sure my daughters feel like they have someone they can trust, but Aksinya is a very strict man." Yes, and if he had had time with George, I'm really sure that George could have been a very different person, but also the positive thing I can say is that George took from the father: the father was a man of the people and he even judges a man of the people hmm so I think it's a natural thing SATA was the first, I mean the firstborn, so I'm sorry, I said: um, she's come, why aren't you like you find your father at the same time?

I was thinking, this shit is that they need to be like my father, no one is funny, but I got to a point where I put up with what she was saying and stood up, she really means what she says Sylva rockin George shares a father that neither Of both of them they really know, but they also have the same grandmother, the same uncles and aunts, this turned the poor Roma neighborhood, which normally never sees a white face, into an attraction for nosy journalists, we wouldn't even know how they tracked this down. place, but during that then the next two months, this place was just you can't handle all this, all the big news broadcasting stations, they were coming here to get to know him well, actually, why is he here?

Why are you here? In a brother, is it? a great man now and that's what happened when

obama

became president of the united states the international press found the younger brother in nairobi making fun of some of them they were just curious

george

told his story proudly explained how he had seen his brother only twice but I was sure they would meet again. Others used George to campaign against Obama UI. He would rather have been your guardian. Ask her. He has other problems to solve. He's taking care of the world, but don't start at home, taking care of me. from that day on George decided it would be best not to talk about it at all.

You know that in the United States there is a huge campaign against Obama and he financed it. You know, the big money behind this because of the nature of politics in the United States is. As I understand it, you know, people are trying to use George and have used George in the past as a weapon to attack George's famous brother. he. Yes, there was a recent

documentary

made called 2016 and Dinesh D'Souza was the one who made the film. here that George used George in a blatantly bombing Hanteo movie and that movie was funded by the anti-Obama morning, so yeah, that's just one example of UK journalists doing the same thing for a national newspaper that arrived and can generate a completely abusive article because he couldn't.

They didn't ask him to meet the real person. No, in fact, he didn't have the skills. He didn't have the humanity to know the real person. He didn't even care. You can see it by the way they treat these people. him and writing about him and then there's another thing: having white friends and connections to the White House can also be dangerous. The slums of Nairobi are not visited by white people so if they come to see you it means you have something that others don't have money here money makes you powerful but also vulnerable and lonely because no one else can imagine if you were the president's younger brother from the United States and lived in the slums of Nairobi and imagine that one day you decide to call him to write or send him an email what do you say where to start what you can ask him what you should talk about maybe the president of your own country who has been cited in The Hague for violating human rights but he doesn't really feel like it so I decided not to go and his big head is shown on posters everywhere and you could throw a stone at him but no one would do that here than your friend Julius, the photographer who also tries to help orphans, has photographs of how things went very wrong during the 2007 election and it still tears him up to think about it.

I was working in Islam during that time and I saw the hand of a human

being

it was still very fresh and it was still doing like that and it was a very shocking moment for me. I've seen worse things than that, but it was crazy. I saw an injured human being without the body and I saw another lady coming from the top of the road screaming. They killed my baby. They killed my baby in this arm. I was with the watch on my arm and what you're still working so well I know and I touched the watch no and I took off the watch but the arm was there and suddenly I didn't know this arm is one of my friends um So when I got there To the main road, I told some guys that there was an arm of a human being there and that we had to pick it up after the elections.

The people in the slums were divided. People who shared the same faith began to fight among themselves. We will need some drama to minimize the popularity of Aloha may change in a new development agenda made by the Genesis Machine we have done a how much can a human being drink in the days we spent with George?, he drinks a lot, he does the best he can, but life has been hard for him, his most precious memories, Aravaan Sarah, his father, his sister, who always gave him shelter in her rumor when he was sent away from home as punishment.

They came here when he was a child. I was about 15 years old. They brought me here as if it were me. For two weeks I come home and make another mistake. I'm not Jeff for electroweak, so that's who I am. I think almost everyone knows me. You've seen me since I was young, but I don't call her aunt, which is. really like my mother, not my aunt, the function was on my mother when my mother went abroad, I came to stay. I'm sorry, she would cry. Do you think it's a coincidence that Barack Obama Sr. had two sons, one in the White House and one in the lungs?

Do you think it's just a coincidence or have I never? As I said, George chose the third option, he had good opportunities, it's his choice. be ruined lamps because if he chose another path it couldn't have been in the In the slums we had opportunities, most people in the Western world forget about the slums and, since George Obama is here, yes, they are very curious and They even think that that is abundant, why is he suffering? They really think George is abundant, and to me he is his. choice because they are the opportunities and they still have the opportunities, do you discuss that with him?

Yes, we argue, we discuss the words. I can tell you that George is also a very difficult person, sometimes you get very stubborn, yes, when you tell him that. Do they argue a lot? You just argue a lot, but at least I know how he handled it. What would make George happy? I know you like to be with people when he's with people. He is very happy when he goes to a place where he feels alone. This is not it. happy as much as sometimes the dream cuts he knows what it is at least you know what to do they make it there is a time when we come and play Scrabble and George is drunk drunk until he still beats you that is very interesting yes, it is not very sharp when the Final scores are null 66 beautiful points Yes, I brought your gift and some good news.

That's the program for the player. Our program. You can see the guy you played George in the original production. How do you feel about being played by a Hollywood star? It's like a sponsor, if it does well in the West End next year there's a real chance it will transfer to Broadway and if it does on Broadway then we should apply to try to bring it to the States and I know we won't It's as easy as it seems. but if we were successful at that and surpassed you, would you be interested in coming to do it?

Well, yes, I'm open to doing it. I just think it would be an amazing time for you and Barack to meet again. on Broadway, I think it could be amazing, how would you feel? There's no way we can promise to fulfill that, of course, yes, but yes, it would be nice to do it with it ready to go. Yeah, do you remember when he was president? Yes. there must have been a great moment, I mean for you too, yes, I was a fraud, are you proud of him now? Yes, how long has it been open? Did you meet him?

Yeah, what did you describe when you first think it's possible? I like to talk about him I don't talk about people who are not in the photo but why you can ask go ask him but I have things yes, it is difficult for me to talk about someone the gossip feels like I am a little demanding because I don't know what they are the motives of the person who comes to sing, yes, I'm exhausted because we have, I mean, if you met your brother twice, I know because I read it in your book, you had a question, it's tons. of 10 questions and I have answered but I am not serious to know why you should not tell me what it is like hello Louise America would you like to see it again yes if it is not good there is no doubt that what Kenyans have achieved since independence is impressive and inspiring, but despite all the progress that has been made, we must surely recognize that neither Kenya nor the African continent have yet reached their potential since then.

It's been a long time coming, but I know change will come. Oh yeah. It will be, but I'm afraid of dying. Thanks for looking for more information on this topic. Check out the playlist. You can also watch this recommended video. Don't forget to subscribe to our channel and we will keep you informed. our documentaries