Homeland
Subtitle: an extraordinary story of hope and survival
By: George Hussein Obama with Damien Lewis.
Contributors: Lewis, Damien.
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781439176177; 9781439176207
Subjects: Obama, George Hussein; Obama, Barack -- Family; Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- Biography; Community activists -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- Biography; Urban poor -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- Biography; Ex-convicts -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- Biography; Inner cities -- Kenya -- Nairobi; Crime -- Kenya -- Nairobi; Huruma (Nairobi, Kenya) -- Biography; Nairobi (Kenya) -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: The remarkable memoir of George Obama, President Obama's Kenyan half brother, who found the inspiration to strive for his goal--to better the lives of his own people--in his elder brother's example. The father they shared died when George was six months old. George was a star pupil at a top boarding school, but after his mother and stepfather separated when he was fifteen, his life crashed and burned. He dropped out of school and soon gravitated to Nairobi's vast ghetto, where he discovered a special affinity with the slum kids, whom he helped survive amid grinding poverty and despair. In 2006, George met his older half brother, then-U.S. senator Barack Obama, for the first time since he was five. He was inspired by his older brother's example to try to change the lives of his people, the ghetto-dwellers, for the better.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: The beginning; title: The last son; title: Our father; title: Mudfish madness; title: For Jennifer; title: In the shadow of Mount Kenya; title: The drinking den; title: No second chance; title: The gulf between us; title: Dagoretti high; title: Crash and burn; title: They call me the Mamba; title: In the ghetto; title: The hood; title: Gangland; title: Imprisoned; title: Absolute zero; title: Survivor; title: The awakening; title: From the streets; title: The brotherhood; title: Barack, my brother; title: Slaying the shame; title: Epilogue; title: Afterword.