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Wed Aug 4, 2021 The 44th president of the United States Barack Obama, author of the 2020
A Promised Land, entered the world on August 4, 1961, in Hawaii. He first came to national attention in
Dreams from My Father:
A
Story of Race and Inheritance, published in 1995. The author had no record of publication, and the book was unusual in a number of ways.
Dreams from My Father has no index and, beyond the cover, no photos. In the early going, the author is known as Barry and he is the stepson of Lolo Soetoro, the Indonesian foreign student his mother Ann Dunham married in 1965. The author claims he later learned that his real father was Barack H. Obama, a Kenyan foreign student at the University of Hawaii. When Obama left Hawaii to study at Harvard, the story goes, he didn’t take his family with him, but he “bequeathed” his name to the author, and by the end of the book the Kenyan is a nameless “old man.”
, was released with minimal fanfare. Although he sanitizes his experience as the publisher of Barack Obama’s
Dreams from My Father, Osnos lets slip a detail that could transform Obama’s reputation from “the best writer to occupy the White House since Lincoln” to the best plagiarist to occupy the White House before Biden. First, the sanitation. In a 2006 article, Osnos publicly scolded then-Sen. Obama for his “ruthlessness.” As Osnos recounted, hustling young agent Jane Dystel stuck by an unknown Obama even after he failed to honor a book contract with Simon & Schuster. Undaunted, Dystel landed Obama a new contract with Osnos, then the publisher of Times Books. The punch line of the 2006 article is that, after
My day started early on the Laikipia plains, as I had to catch my mid-morning flight from the Nanyuki airfield via Wilson Airport to the Masai Mara.
My day started early on the Laikipia plains, as I had to catch my mid-morning flight from the Nanyuki airfield via Wilson Airport to the Masai Mara. The first leg of the journey took place in a Cessna Caravan, nearly full to capacity, including renowned Kenyan artist Kuki Gallmann, while the onward flight was to take place in a Twin Otter and that flight was completely booked up.
The stopover at Wilson Airport extended through lunch time, and passengers have several options on where to eat, including the Aero Club of East Africa’s restaurant, where my hosts John Buckley and Anu Vohora of SafariLink took me – a pleasant experience on a sunny day to sit outside on the deck.
Kuki Gallmann captures perfectly the magic of Kenya The New York Times Book Review This love-letter to the Dark Continent.a heartfelt evocation of Africa and its people, illustrated with a selection of stunning photographs. A safari of the soul Tatler Tender and vivid descriptions of the land she is so passionate about. - Edinburgh Evening News A beautiful, evocative collection of stories from this bestselling author. Gallmann unveils the side of Africa that she knows and loves, rejoicing in each new experience, each rediscovery of the mysterious land which has become her home with all its superstitions, its beliefs, its pervasive heat and above all its magic.