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George Hussein Obama, stepbrother of President Barack Obama , attends a news conference in Nyangoma Kogelo in this November 4, 2008 file photo. His memoir is set to be published in January.
The book, tentatively titled Homeland, which gives the life story of George, will be published by Simon & Schuster in January 2010.
George Obama, 27, shares the same father with his famous, older half sibling, although George and Barack Obama - 20 years apart in age - did not grow up together and did not meet as children.
George is the youngest of the senior Obama's seven children and was born six months before his father died.Little is known about George Obama. However, the world first heard about him last year when supporters of John McCain, then the main challenger of President Obama's bid for White House, dragged his name into the US Presidential campaigns, accusing Barack Obama of neglecting him and his kin.
Early this year, the younger Obama was arrested in Huruma estate, Nairobi, on suspicion of being in possession of bhang.He was scheduled to appear in court a day after to be charged with possession of the banned drug and resisting arrest but was released the same day.
Towards the US elections, George became the centre of attraction when a prominent US conservative, Mr Dinesh D'Souza, who was Mr McCain's supporter, attempted to embarrass the then Ilinois Senator by soliciting donations to a "Compassion Fund" for his half-brother.
Mr D'Souza had accused the Democratic Party's candidate of "harping on the theme of helping the underprivileged while doing nothing to help his half-brother."
Rubbished the fund
But the Kenyan Obamas rubbished the fund, saying it was motivated by malice.
Mzee Abong'o Obama, a paternal uncle of the US President, said the fund was not set up "in good faith", while Ms Auma Obama, a step-sister of the senator said those behind the fund had been ill-informed by negative publicity in the Western media.
DAILY NATION- Obama?s brother to release bookGeorge Obama, 27, shares the same father with his famous, older half sibling, although George and Barack Obama - 20 years apart in age - did not grow up together and did not meet as children.
George is the youngest of the senior Obama's seven children and was born six months before his father died.Little is known about George Obama. However, the world first heard about him last year when supporters of John McCain, then the main challenger of President Obama's bid for White House, dragged his name into the US Presidential campaigns, accusing Barack Obama of neglecting him and his kin.
Early this year, the younger Obama was arrested in Huruma estate, Nairobi, on suspicion of being in possession of bhang.He was scheduled to appear in court a day after to be charged with possession of the banned drug and resisting arrest but was released the same day.
Towards the US elections, George became the centre of attraction when a prominent US conservative, Mr Dinesh D'Souza, who was Mr McCain's supporter, attempted to embarrass the then Ilinois Senator by soliciting donations to a "Compassion Fund" for his half-brother.
Mr D'Souza had accused the Democratic Party's candidate of "harping on the theme of helping the underprivileged while doing nothing to help his half-brother."
Rubbished the fund
But the Kenyan Obamas rubbished the fund, saying it was motivated by malice.
Mzee Abong'o Obama, a paternal uncle of the US President, said the fund was not set up "in good faith", while Ms Auma Obama, a step-sister of the senator said those behind the fund had been ill-informed by negative publicity in the Western media.