Kezia Obama was Barack Obama’s stepmother and the mother of his half siblings.Obama was the first wife of Barack Obama Sr., the former president’s father.
Her children included Malik and Auma Obama, the half-siblings of Barack Obama. A native of Kenya, she settled in Bracknell, Berkshire, England after her daughter moved there.
When she first met her stepson in 1987, she noted that he reminded her of his father. She attended President Obama’s inauguration in 2009.“[H]e was just smart like Barack Senior, talking like Barack Senior,” she said. “He just wanted to talk to people.
To know about what his father was doing in Kenya and then about Kenya, about politics. Just to know everybody in Kenya.” —from a 2009 interview for the BBCKezia Obama,.
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