Mama Sarah Onyango Obama, the grandmother of former US President Barack Obama, is dead. He said Mama Sarah Obama will be remembered by many for her philanthropic work, especially in her Nyang’oma-Kogelo home in Siaya County where she initiated several community development projects. According to Prof Nyong’o, the late Mama Sarah Obama was his late mother’s great friend “and a dear grandmother to all of us”. “Mama Sarah Obama was not only a matriarch of the larger Obama family but a mother figure to many people. “In the passing of Mama Sarah Obama, we have lost a matriarch who lived ahead of her time.

Source: Daily Nation March 29, 2021 04:52 UTC