Complex sentence: Before working as a cook for missionaries in Nairobi, Barack Obama Sr. 's father Onyango had traveled widely, enlisting in the British colonial forces and visiting Europe, India, and Zanzibar, where he converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam and took the name Hussein.
Split into simpler sentences: Before working as a cook for missionaries in Nairobi, Barack Obama's father Onyango had traveled widely, enlisting in the British colonial forces and visiting Europe, India, and Zanzibar. There he converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam and took the name Hussein.