Family tree Willems Hoogeloon-Best » Habiba AKUMU (1918-2006)

Personal data Habiba AKUMU 

  • She was born in the year 1918.
  • She died in the year 2006, she was 88 years old.

Household of Habiba AKUMU

She is married to Hussein Onyango OBAMA.

They got married


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Notes about Habiba AKUMU

Habiba Akumu Obama

Also known as Akumu Nyanjoga and Sje (c. 1918–2006).[89][90][91][92] Sje was Barack Obama's paternal grandmother, and the second wife of Hussein Onyango Obama. She had three children with Onyango: daughters Sarah and Auma, and son Barack (Barack Obama's father).[93] Her father was named Njango, and she was born and raised in the Western Kenyan village of Karabondi.[92][94]
In his memoir Dreams from My Father, Obama wrote that Akumu was miserable in her marriage and abandoned Onyango Obama and her children with him. She subsequently married again and moved to Tanganyika, now Tanzania. Her name Akumu means "mysterious birth," related to her conception after her mother had given birth to another child, but before resumption of the woman's menses.[95] Akumu took the name Habiba upon her conversion to Islam. A photograph of her holding her son, Barack Sr., on her lap is on the cover of her grandson's memoir. (See image at right margin.)[

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Habiba AKUMU

Habiba AKUMU
1918-2006


Hussein Onyango OBAMA
± 1895-1975

Barack Hussein Sr. OBAMA
1936-1982

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