President Obama n his African roots
Sen. Barack Obama & Sarah Hussein Obama, his grandmother, during the visit to Nyongoma Kogelo village in Kenya. Obama, a presidential candidate, has refused to appear at a Fox News co-sponsored debate.
“I have the blood of Africa within me,” Mr. Obama told the Ghanaian Parliament.
President Obama n his African roots
President Obama n his African roots 
President Obama's biography -- son of a black father from Kenya and a
white mother from Kansas -- has long suggested that unlike most
African-Americans, his roots did not include slavery. Now a team of
genealogists is upending that thinking, saying that Obama's mother had,
in addition to her European ancestors, at least one African forebear and
that the president is most likely descended from one of the first
documented African slaves in the United States.
The findings are scheduled to be announced Monday by Ancestry.com, a genealogy company based in Provo, Utah. Its team, while lacking definitive proof, said it had evidence that "strongly suggests" Obama's family tree -- on his mother's side -- stretches back nearly four centuries to a slave in colonial Virginia named John Punch
The findings are scheduled to be announced Monday by Ancestry.com, a genealogy company based in Provo, Utah. Its team, while lacking definitive proof, said it had evidence that "strongly suggests" Obama's family tree -- on his mother's side -- stretches back nearly four centuries to a slave in colonial Virginia named John Punch
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