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Kenyan journalist Phillip Ochieng, himself a Kenyan who married a white woman and had a girl with her, experienced an abandonment of family similar to that of Obama Senior. [speaking of Obama’s book about his father’s abandonment] “Because I recognize myself in it,” Ochieng admitted, “this is the most moving theme in Barack Obama’s book-the scar that this fact left in Junior’s mind, the enduring crisis of identity that will not go away.”

Ochieng extended the analysis to a crisis he posited, “that all black people-no matter where they are-live in two worlds and, therefore, have an identity crisis. One might even say that they live in no world. Even in our native Africa, walal (‘we are lost’).” From here Ochieng reached back to “European Imperialism” that “drove our forefathers’ communal spirit away from the land,” such that “we stopped being African.

We started to think like Europeans,” he went on. “But we never became Europeans either. We became ghosts flitting into and out of European imagination.”

This brought Ochieng to the work of the Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o, whom Ochieng credits as “telling us for decades what we have refused to hear-that as long as we continue to worship European gods, European ideas on governance and European paradigms of development, all our endowments-labour, natural resources and markets-will continue to belong to Europe for the fleecing.”
-p. 38, Obama Nation, author, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D