"Beatings and abuse made Barack Obama’s grandfather loath the British" from Times of London reports that Barack Obama's paternal grandfather was imprisoned, beaten and abused during the mau-mau revolts that led to Kenya's independence.
Hussein Onyango Obama, Mr Obama’s paternal grandfather, became involved in the Kenyan independence movement while working as a cook for a British army officer after the war. He was arrested in 1949 and jailed for two years in a high-security prison where, according to his family, he was subjected to horrific violence to extract information about the growing insurgency.
“The African warders were instructed by the white soldiers to whip him every morning and evening till he confessed,” said Sarah Onyango, Hussein Onyango’s third wife, the woman Mr Obama refers to as “Granny Sarah”.
Is it really true? Actually our past is so much different and varies man to man.
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