Offshore Electricity Grid Infrastructure in Europe
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A Techno-Economic Assessment
3E (coordinator),
dena, EWEA, ForWind, IEO, NTUA, Senergy, SINTEF
Final Report, October 2011
Table of contents
FOREWORD 6
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 7
1 INTRODUCTION 17
1.1 Context and background 18
1.2 Objective of OffshoreGrid 19
1.3 Methodology and approach 19
1.4 Stakeholders 19
1.5 Document structure 20
2 K EY ASSUMPTIONS AND SCENARIOS 21
2.1 Offshore wind development scenarios in Northern Europe 22
2.2 Generation capacity and commodity price scenarios 23
2.3 Technology to connect offshore wind energy 25
3 METHODOLOGY - SIMULATION INPUTS AND MODELS 27
3.1 Wind power series model 28
3.2 Power market and power flow model 29
3.3 Infrastructure cost model 29
3.4 Case-independent model 30
4 RESULTS 31
4.1 Wind output statistics 32
4.1.1 Spatial smoothing of wind power 32
4.1.2 Spatial power correlations 33
4.2 Wind farm hubs versus individual connections 35
4.2.1 Hubs and individual connections in the sea basins in Northern Europe 36
4.2.2 Overall cost reductions expected from shared connections via hubs 39
4.2.3 Scheduled wind farm connection – risk of stranded hub investments 40
4.2.4 Conclusion and Discussion on Hubs versus Individual Connections 42
4.3 Integrated design – case studies 42
4.3.1 Tee-in solutions – Case study evaluation 43
4.3.2 Hub-to-hub solutions – Case study evaluation 46
4.4 Integrated design – case-independent model 49
4.4.1 Minimum distance for tee-in solution 49
4.4.2 Maximum distance between hubs for integrated hub solution 52
4.4.3 The Cobra cable case study 55
4.4.4 Conclusion on integrated design 57
4.5 Overall grid design 58
4.5.1 Approach 58
4.5.2 The Direct Design methodology 59
4.5.3 The Split Design methodology 64
4.5.4 Comparison of methodologies 69
4.5.5 Infrastructure investment – circuit length and total costs 74
4.5.6 Power system impact of the offshore grid 77
4.5.7 Conclusion and discussion 78
5 TOWARDS AN OFFSHORE GRID – FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS 81
5.1 Challenges and barriers 82
5.1.1 Operation and maintenance of an offshore grid and further technical challenges 82
5.1.2 Regulatory framework and policy 84
5.1.3 Market challenges and financing 86
5.1.4 Supply chain 86
5.2 Ongoing policy and industry initiatives 87
6 C ONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 89
6.1 Wind farm hubs 90
6.2 Tee-in solutions 91
6.3 Hub-to-hub solutions 92
6.4 Overall grid design 94
6.5 Overall recommendations 96
7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND FUNDING 99
8 REFERENCES 101
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Powering Europe:wind energy and the electricity grid
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CONTENTS
chapter 1
Introduction: a E uropean vision 5
1 Introduction 6
2 Turning the energy challenge
into a competitive advantage 8
2.1 Wind power and European electricity 9
2.2 Wind power in the system 11
2.3 All power sources are fallible 11
3 Main challenges and issues of integration 13
4 Integration of wind power in Europe:
the facts 14
4.1 Wind generation and wind plants:
the essentials 15
4.2 Power system operations
with large amounts of wind power 16
4.3 Upgrading electricity networks – challenges
and solutions 17
4.4 Electricity market design 19
4.5 The merit order effect of large-scale
wind integration 20
5 Roles and responsibilities 22
6 European renewable energy grid vision
2010-2050 28
chapter 2
Wind generation and wind plants:
the essentials 35
1 Wind generation and wind farms –
the essentials 36
1.1 Wind power plants 36
1.2 Variability of wind power production 42
1.3 Variability and predictability
of wind power production 48
1.4 Impacts of large-scale wind power .
integration on electricity systems 53
2 Connecting wind power to the grid 55
2.1 Problems with grid code requirements
for wind power 56
2.2 An overview of the present grid code
requirements for wind power 57
2.3 Two-step process for grid code
harmonisation in Europe 60
3 Summary 62
chapter 3
Power system operations
with large amounts of wind power 65
1 Introduction 66
2 Balancing demand, conventional
generation and wind power 67
2.1 Introduction 67
2.2 Effect of wind power on scheduling of
reserves 68
2.3 Short-term forecasting to support
system balancing 70
2.4 Additional balancing costs 71
3 Improved wind power management 73
4 Ways of enhancing wind power integration 76
5 Wind power’s contribution to firm power 79
5.1 Security of supply and system adequacy 79
5.2 Capacity credit is the measure for firm
wind power 80
6 National and European integration studies
and experiences 83
6.1 Germany 84
6.2 Nordic region 85
6.3 Denmark 86
6.5 Ireland 88
6.6 Netherlands 89
6.7 European Wind Integration Study 89
7 Annex: principles of power balancing
in the system 92
chapter 4
Upgrading electricity networks –
challenges and solutions 95
1 Drivers and barriers for network upgrades 96
2 Immediate opportunities for upgrade:
optimal use of the network 99
3 Longer term improvements to European
transmission planning 101
3.1 Recommendations from European studies 101
4 Offshore grids 106
4.1 Drivers and stepping stones 106
4.2 Technical issues 108
4.3 Policy issues 110
4.4 Regulatory aspects 110
4.5 Planning 110
5 Costs of transmission upgrades and who
pays for what 112
5.1 Cost estimates 112
5.2 Allocating grid infrastructure costs 113
6 More active distribution networks 114
7 A holistic view of future network
development: smart grids 116
8 Summary 117
chapter 5
Electricity market design 119
1 Introduction 120
2 Barriers to integrating wind power into
the power market 121
3 Developments in the European electricity
market 123
3.1 Liberalised national markets 123
3.2 European integration assisted by
interconnection 124
3.3 Legal framework for further liberalisation
of the European electricity market 125
4 Wind power in the European internal
electricity market 126
4.1 Current market rules in EU Member
States 126
4.2 Economic benefits of proper market rules
for wind power integration in Europe 127
5 Summary 128
chapter 6
The merit order effect of large-scale
wind integration 131
1 Background 132
2 Introduction 134
2.1 Summary of literature survey 136
3 Summary of findings 138
4 Methodology 140
4.1 Approach 140
4.2 Modelling 142
5 Analysis 144
5.1 Modelling results 144
5.2 Sensitivities 155
6 Conclusion 162
7 Annex 164
7.1 Assumptions in the model 164
7.2 Model description 167
References, glossary and abbreviations 171
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April 22, 2009 at 1:46 pm | FROM allafrica.com
2004
The Nation (Nairobi)
Kenya: Special Report: Sleepy Little Village Where Obama Traces His Own Roots
Nairobi — His sudden rise to stardom has stunned many. Analysts toast him as one of the most brilliant and popular black politicians in the United States in recent times.
Others taunt him as a “skinny kid with a funny name,” whose Kenyan father herded goats and lived in a remote village in Siaya, Nyanza province.
With his cousin Yusuf Okoth Obama, when he visited his father’s home in Alego, Siaya, 10 years ago. e
But excited admirers both in Kenya and the US celebrate him as a political superstar and a beacon of hope for his people.
As a front runner in the United States Illinois Senate campaigns, Barack Obama Jr has raised a cloud of excitement in the international political arena.
After delivering a well received public speech at the National Democratic Convention in Boston last month, there are some Americans who now believe he is a future candidate for the White House.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, as it were, in the sleepy village of Alego-Kogello where Barack Obama Snr grew up, they call the prospective Senator “Wuod Sarah”, Dholuo for “the son of Sarah”, Sarah being his foster grandmother.
Obama’s real grand mother – the late Habiba Akumu separated with his grandfather, thus forcing Sarah to step in to care for him.
Agitated villagers are waiting in awe. What if Obama wins the Senate seat in the November 2 elections? Will he return home with bags of dollars? Will the rocky road leading to their village be tarmacked? Will their mud-walled schools where Obama’s father and cousins once schooled be improved?
As the US senate campaign hots up, Obama mania is sweeping through Alego.
Villagers here now buy newspapers to read every tid bit they can find about their American kin. The rest have their ears glued to battered transistor radios to keep abreast with the latest information about Obama Jr’s political exploits.
Everyone you meet in the area wants to be associated either with Obama Jr, his father or even distant relatives.
Newly-born children and oxen, are being named after him. There are even suggestions that a village path leading to a local market be named after him.
With his father, the late Barack Obama senior (second left, in glasses), his step mother Keziah (seated, left) and step brothers Malik , Sadik and sister Auma.
To these simple villagers, news that Obama was causing a political stir in the world’s most powerful country is a miracle. “Ma en hono maduong” (this is a big miracle), says 50-year-old Martin Onyango.
“Wamor kod wuod Sarah. Otingo’ nying Kenya malo” (We are happy with Sarah’s son, he has elevated Kenya’ name),” says Onyango as he chews sugarcane.
Some of the people of Alego believe Obama’s rising fortunes will translate into increased employment opportunities, better roads and education opportunities. A few are even optimistic that even the dusty Nyang’oma-Kogello market will be upgraded to a big town, complete with an airstrip.
“We don’t expect a whole Senator to drive to his home village. We expect him to fly direct and land at Nyang’oma,” says George Onyango, a 20-year-old barber.
The prospective Senator’s sister-in-law Fauziah Anyango, wife to his step-brother Malik Obama, told the Sunday Nation that she was eager to meet her heroic in-law.
Said she: “I have not met him but I pray that he wins the Senate seat. His victory will not be for us, but for Kenya and Africa.”
A Sunday Nation team that set out to trace Obama’s roots was surprised to find that, unknown to many, Obama has actually been to this village twice. First in 1983, when he had come to mourn his late father, Barack Hussein Obama, who had died in Nairobi in 1982; and again in 1995 when he brought home his young bride to show her his roots.
During both visits, the villagers paid little or no attention to him. He managed to slip quietly into the village, pray at his father’s graveyard and meet a few relatives and villagers.
Family members told the Sunday Nation that they taught his bride how to use traditional pots (Agulu) to fetch water from a nearby stream.
Obama Jr and his bride spent nearly a week sleeping in a tiny room in his foster grandmother’s old brick house and ate traditional foods.
The ropes from which he hung a mosquito net at his grandmother’s house still dangle in the bedroom.
Photographs taken during his visit to Alego and those taken during his wedding in America have filled three albums.
In one of the photos, a slender, young Obama is seen boarding a matatu (commuter taxi) to Kisumu, from where he and his fiancee would fly to Nairobi and then back to the US.
We were informed that Obama’s foster grandmother, Mama Sarah Ogwel, who brought up his father, had actually travelled to the US to visit several times.
Mama Sarah told us: “He is very enthusiastic about his relatives here. He keeps on sending people to find out how we are faring.”
And whether or not he wins the Senate seat, the 43-year-old Harvard University trained lawyer is expected back in Alego to build his “Simba” (a young man’s hut) in line with Luo traditions.
Barack has deep roots here. He once told me he has two homes – Kenya and the United States, she says happily.
Ever since the news of Obama’s Kenya connection was known, Mama Sarah has been receiving a stream of visitors. They now average about five a day.
Most of these visitors are journalists, both foreign and local (like ourselves), who have turned the home upside down while tracing Obama’s roots.
To cater for these many uninvited guests, the family is putting up a guest house just next to a house built for his father’s first wife, Keziah Obama.
Keziah, who hails from Kendu Bay in Rachuonyo district, lives in Britain with three of her four children.
One of her sons, Malik Obama, is a frequent visitor to the USA but is currently in Kenya though he had travelled to Nairobi when we visited.
While she welcomes visitors, Mama Sarah is getting a little fed up with the disruption they have caused in her life.
The day before the Sunday Nation team arrived, she had played host to a crew from CNN.
Lamented Mama Sarah as we prepared to interview her: “I can’t live here in peace. I have been talking to visitors for several hours a day. I have been interviewed a thousand times and I am tired.”
Tracing Obama’s home was a simple task. The home, located some 60 km from Kisumu town, is well known in Alego. Almost every villager you meet is ready to offer a tip on how to access the home.
To reach the home, one turns off the Kisumu-Siaya road near Ng’iya shopping centre and drives towards Obama’s village market, Nyang’oma-Kogello. From there the home is just a stone’s throw-away.
By local standards it is a vast well kept compound with Sarah’s battered brick house sitting imposingly at the far end.
Two cemented graves, one for Barack Obama Snr and the other for his father Mzee Hussein Onyango Obama, who was born in 1870 but died in 1975.
The Obama family are among the few Muslims in the locality.
The prospective Senator’s grandfather was called Hussein Onyango Obama. He worked as a cook and spent most of his working life in Nairobi.
According to Mama Sarah, Obama Jr used his two trips to Kenya to try to unravel his roots. He spoke to many villagers and relatives through an interpreter.
The candidate’s best-selling autobiography, Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, was compiled with information gathered from relatives and villagers in Alego.
The story revolves around Obama’s quest to find out more about his father, described by many as a brilliant economist who returned from the United States to take up a civil service job in Kenya. He was was later killed in a road accident in 1982, just when he was poised to take up a top job at the Central Bank.
According to the family, Obama’s father travelled to America to study at the University of Hawaii in 1959. While there, he worked for an oil company and married his second wife, a white woman, named Anna Toot, and their union produced Barack Obama Jr.
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Obama’s book says Obama Snr left his family in Hawaii after winning a scholarship to study in Harvard when his son was two years old.
The marriage later broke up after Anna’s father opposed it, according to Mama Sarah.
“Anna’s father was furious about the marriage and threatened to have Obama Snr expelled from the university. Our son sent us letters, pleading that we intervene to save the marriage,” remembers Sarah.
April 22, 2009 at 2:00 pm | FROM KENYA.advisor.com
Obama’s visits to Kenya
Obama visited Kenya only twice in his life. The first time was before he, like his father, entered Harvard University. He visited his relatives in the Nyanza province, and cried at his fathers grave, even though he hardly knew him.
The second time, in 2006, it was an official visit as US Senator. With his wife and 2 daughters, he was received at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by the US Ambassador, Michael Rannesberger, and Obama’s Kenyan relatives. The streets were lined with massive crowds hoping to catch a glimpse of the currently only black US Senator. A spirit of Obama mania swept the nation, with Kenyans even renaming a local beer to “Obama”.
He also visited his 85-year old grandmother in her little village of Nyangoma-Kogelo, where chicken roam free. She didn’t buy a new dress for the occasion, saying that Obama would hug her anyway. She cooked a traditional Luo meal for him with eggs, vegetables and ugali. They spoke through an interpreter, as she doesn’t speak English.
April 23, 2009 at 3:22 pm | FROM halperin.wordpress.com
ON ODINGA AND OBAMA….
Super Tuesday post
February 5, 2008
You’d think following the politics here would be enough but people also keep up on the American election. Of course, Barack Obama’s father was Kenyan and he’s a popular figure, though the people I meet here seem skeptical that he can actually win. Obama’s heritage is Luo, the same tribe as the opposition candidate Raila Odinga, who lost the disputed election. The oft-repeated joke here is America will have a Luo president before Kenya does. A few people have written to ask if Obama’s family is causing all the trouble in Kenya. The short answer is no.
The longer answer is also no. Kenya seems to have quieted down quite a bit, knock wood. But the trouble here was caused by a small number of people from diverse tribes. In the sort of overreaching statement that Kenyan politicians sometimes indulge, Odinga said he was Obama’s cousin. I haven’t heard of any confirmation from the Obama camp.
(I also heard that Obama is related to Odinga too!)
April 27, 2009 at 12:44 pm | UPDATE
Monday, April 20, 2009 (FROM SEFERMPOST.COM)
Christianity vs Muslim: Obama Step-Grandmother To Decide
A Protestant church in Kenya is trying to convert US President Barack Obama’s step-grandmother to Christianity against her will, a Muslim group said Monday, condemning the move as provocation.
The Seventh Day Adventist church in the western town of Kisumu had invited 87-year-old Sarah Obama — a Muslim — to a function on Saturday, where she was allegedly to be baptised.
According to relatives in her village of Kogelo, “Mama Sarah”, as she is popularly known in the US president’s paternal homeland, was surprised by the offer and declined to attend.
“I regret the attempt by the Christian religion to force her to convert,” Sheikh Mohamed Khalifa, the organising secretary of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya, told AFP.
“Why only her? Why not before Obama became president? Didn’t they see her before he became president? We are ready to protect our religion,” he said.
Said Obama, a step-brother to the US president, said the church pastors had approached Sarah Obama with news that she could become a Christian.
“Mama (Sarah) was born a Muslim and wishes to die a Muslim. The issue of conversion is neither here not there,” he said.
Khalifa denounced the move as a “provocation.”
“They don’t have permission from Jesus to convert someone. I challenge them to quote a verse from the Bible allowing them to convert someone,” he said.
Sarah became a national celebrity when her grandson visited the country in 2006 and her modest homestead has become a tourist attraction since the former Illinois senator’s November 2008 election triumph.
The Kenyan government last month declared Kogelo a protected national heritage site.
April 29, 2009 at 5:56 am | Second gentleman from right is MARK NDESANDJO, half brother from third wife of the president’s father.
His last name is different because his mother RUTH NDESANDJO had a
bitter divorce with the president’s father and re married changing not just her name but also for her two sons.
You can get more information about them on google.
April 29, 2009 at 3:43 pm | missy,Sister thanks for the additional info. Any thing you want to add about Obama’s relatives in Kenya just post in this comment section no matter how long(article or anything you dig) cause that’s how we work here-get all the people to add info we don’t see!
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May 3, 2009 at 12:28 am | FROM cbsnews.com
Obama’s Half Brother Far From Spotlight
President-Elect’s Intensely Private Half Brother Lives In China
SHENZHEN, China, Jan. 16, 2009
Mark Ndesandjo, the intensely private half brother of President-elect Barack Obama, plays the piano to raise money for orphans during a charity concert in Shenzhen, southern China, Friday, Jan. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Obama’s Low-Key Brother
Barack Obama’s half-brother Mark Ndesandjo, who lives in China, doesn’t name drop.
(AP) The news release didn’t say who Mark Ndesandjo was. Nor did the posters and e-mails promoting the concert Friday in this southern Chinese boomtown where he played piano to raise money for orphans.
But the 200 or so people who showed up for the fundraiser at a posh hotel resort knew the man in a Chinese-style brown silk shirt was the half brother of President-elect Barack Obama. They had a rare encounter with Ndesandjo, who has been dodging the media since his family ties were made public last summer.
For the past seven years, Ndesandjo has been living in Shenzhen, a freewheeling city just across the border from Hong Kong. The announcement for his piano concert identified him as a strategic marketing consultant. He also helped start a chain of eateries in China called Cabin BBQ.
Ndesandjo has a thin mustache, shaved head and a gold stud in his left earlobe. He slightly resembles his half brother, and shares the same trim, athletic physique. He speaks Mandarin, is a vegetarian and practices Chinese calligraphy.
And he said Friday that he has just finished a novel called “Nairobi to Shenzhen,” but as yet has no publisher.
Ndesandjo apparently wants a low-key life separate from Obama. No one mentioned his family when he was introduced at the charity concert and cocktail party sponsored by the American Chamber of Commerce in South China.
During brief remarks on stage, Ndesandjo mentioned that he would visit the U.S. in a couple days, apparently to attend Tuesday’s presidential inauguration. He said if he didn’t make the trip in time, he would embarrass his family.
And he told the crowd that chamber president, Harley Seyedin, was fond of the president-elect. Ndesandjo added, “I like my president, too!” That was the closest he came to mentioning Barack Obama.
Ndesandjo’s reluctance to play up his famous relative is extremely unusual in China, where people commonly name drop and use their connections to advance their interests. In China, relationships, or “guanxi,” with powerful people are golden and rarely wasted in winning new business or opening other doors.
As his Chinese wife watched, Ndesandjo began his performance with a Chinese tune called “Liuyang River” followed by what he said was “Chopin’s First Nocturne.” His third and final piece was a jazz tune by Fats Waller called “Viper’s Drag.”
He played with passion, at times hunched over the keyboard or rocking back with his eyes closed and lips slightly parted in expressions of ectasy and agony.
His Chinese friend and restaurant business partner, Sui Zhenjun, said he has known Ndesandjo since he arrived in China in 2002.
“But it wasn’t until July when media reports started surfacing about him being related to Obama that I found out they were related,” he told The Associated Press. “He called and told me.”
Ndesandjo declined to answer questions from the AP at Friday’s concert. He wouldn’t confirm basic details about his past or discuss his relationship with Obama.
He uses the surname of his mother, Ruth, the third wife of his father, who died in 1982. He was born in Kenya and moved to the United States when he was a child.
Footage from a Chinese TV news show posted on Youtube shows him practicing calligraphy at home and teaching children how to play the piano, praising them in Mandarin and English.
On Friday, he said he had visited a Shenzhen orphanage shortly after arriving in China and saw rows and rows of sleeping babies while a harried staff of two nurses tried to care for them.
“One child with big black eyes seized my finger and would not let it go,” he told the crowd.
After the charity event, Ndesandjo chatted with friends and shook hands as he slowly walked out of the venue pursued by journalists hoping for a comment. He slipped into an elevator and continued to ignore questions as the door slowly closed.
By William Foreman
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November 4, 2009 at 5:24 pm | BERNARD OBAMA,OBAMA’S BROTHER APPEARS IN THIS ARTICLE:
THE SUN (LONDON),2008
Obama’s brother is in Bracknell
By OLIVER HARVEY
Chief Feature Writer
Published: 26 Jul 2008
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HE may be living in a Bracknell council house, but soon he could be dining with his brother at the White House.
The Sun was the first newspaper to track down and speak to Bernard Obama, 37.
And he said of Democrat candidate Barack: “I’m very proud of my big brother.
Back Row L-R: Unknown, Barack Obama, Obama’s half-brother Malik, Unknown, half-brother Abo, half-brother Bernard. Front Row L-R: Half-sister Auma, step-mother Kezia, step-gran Sarah,
“It’s quite a funny feeling that he might be the next President of the USA.”
Muslim Bernard – an avid Manchester United fan and Sun reader – is staying with his bingo-loving mum Kezia, 67, who has lived in the Berkshire new town for six years.
He was glued to the TV news in the modest suburban bungalow last night as Barack, 46, was due to arrive in Britain.
Bernard leads a quiet life, running a car parts firm in Nairobi, Kenya.
But he is a regular visitor to the UK to visit Elvis fan Kezia.
Barack Obama
She married Barack Obama Snr in Kenya in 1957 when she was a teenager.
He later left for the US and went on to meet Ann Dunham, who gave birth to his now widely acclaimed son.
Obama Snr, a Kenyan goatherd who became a leading economist in his east African homeland’s government, was killed in a car crash in 1982.
Barack Jnr was 21 and Bernard 12. He said: “Our father passed away when I was young and I didn’t get the chance to get to know him very well.
“When you lose your dad at such a young age, that’s when you really miss him.”
Bernard smiled when he spoke of his famous half-brother. He said:
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I was around 17 when I first met Barack.
He was visiting Kenya and it was obvious from the way he spoke and his charisma that he was going to be a success.
He is charming, very good company and very charismatic.
I’ve met him since with his wife Michelle in Kenya. She’s very nice, a very strong and intelligent person. I don’t think we will see him on this visit to Britain. It’s official business and he’ll be very busy.Close_quote
Bernard is remaining with Kezia for the next month as she recuperates from illness.
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Barefoot and dressed in cream shorts and red T-shirt, he said: “I love coming to Britain because I love football and I like reading about it in The Sun.
Converted
“I’m a big Manchester United fan but I think Barack’s more into basketball.”
Bernard converted to Islam 18 years ago. The dad of one said: “I’m a Muslim, I don’t deny it. My father was raised a Muslim.
“But it’s not an issue. I don’t know what all the hullabaloo is about.”
Barack is a staunch Christian. A recent cartoon in the New Yorker magazine caused a furore by portraying him as a turban-wearing Muslim and his wife as a terrorist.
In February, photos emerged of Barack in traditional Somali robes during a trip to Kenya in 2006.
But Bernard dismissed jibes about Barack’s religion and said there was no significance to the photos.
Barack Obama’s stepmother Kezia
He added: “If you go to Japan or Nigeria you put on the traditional dress. People are trying to look for ways to tarnish him.”
In his biography, Dreams From My Father, Barack told of meeting Bernard in Kenya.
He wrote: “That sweetness, the lack of guile, made him seem much younger than his 17 years.
“As we stepped into the street, Bernard draped his arm over my shoulder. ‘It’s good to have a big brother around,’ he said, before waving goodbye and vanishing into the crowd.”
The pair’s dad left Kenya in 1959 when he took up a US scholarship. Kezia, then three months’ pregnant with daughter Auma, already had a year-old son Malik to look after.
Barack Snr met Barack’s mum Ann in Hawaii, and she gave birth to the now presidential hopeful in August 1961.
The Democrat’s dad returned to Kenya in 1965 and Kezia subsequently gave birth to two sons, Abo in 1968 and Bernard in 1970.
Raunchy
Barack’s former brother-in-law Ian Manners, 55 – divorced from Bernard’s and Barack’s sister Auma – is writing a book about his in-laws.
Daughter Akinyi, 11, spent Christmas with Barack in the US. She said: “I asked him if I could meet Beyonce. He smiled and said he’d see what he could do.”
Barack Obama and wife Michelle with Ian’s sister Diane Meisl and nephew Julian Meisl at Ian and Auma’s wedding reception in Wokingham in August, 1996.
Barack attended Ian’s 1996 wedding to Auma and famously ran out of a pub in Wokingham, Berks, during Ian’s stag bash when a raunchy dancer took to the stage.
Businessman Ian said: “We were having a few drinks, then a stripper dressed as a St Trinian’s schoolgirl appeared.
“She was no Miss World and it was the last thing I wanted. As soon as Barack saw what was about to happen he made a hasty retreat.
“He was in politics already and left the pub immediately.”
Ian added: “I played a couple of rounds of golf with him in 1997.
“We had to go to a municipal course because golf clubs wouldn’ t have been keen on a black man playing on their course back then.
“He is very competitive and beat me both times. It was obvious Barack was going to get to the top.”
Bernard agreed, saying: “Barack is going to win the election, definitely, and I want to be in the US for his inauguration.
“He will be a breath of fresh air for the world.”
o.harvey@the-sun.co.uk
November 5, 2009 at 2:35 pm | UPDATE
from dianej.wordpress.com
Obama’s Brother Mark Ndesandjo
Barack Obama senior fathered eight children by four different women, one of his sons, Mark Ndesandjo, lives and works in China as a businessman since 2002. Ndesandjo is the son of Barack’s late father and his third wife, Ruth Nidesand who operates a kindergarten in Nairobi. The half-brothers don’t appear to be close according to data in Obama’s book Dreams from My Father (1995).
November 26, 2009 at 12:06 pm | not to be rude , but wat did he ever do for kenya?
May 17, 2010 at 1:55 am | Travel as a social act, that the existence of ancient China is one of the world’s ancient civilizations, the rise of travel activities also highest in the world, China as early as 22 century BC, there was.
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August 16, 2011 at 1:13 am | child support…
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August 27, 2011 at 6:56 pm | accounting or finance degree…
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October 7, 2011 at 7:44 pm | You must read this please.
October 7, 2011 at 7:45 pm | Read this.
October 27, 2011 at 9:06 pm | acne and acne scars…
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October 30, 2011 at 4:40 pm | dry skin tips…
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November 7, 2011 at 7:15 pm | energy drink…
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December 27, 2011 at 8:24 pm | izrada sajtova | izrada sajta | sajtova izrada |…
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February 25, 2012 at 11:09 pm | organisme de formation…
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March 23, 2012 at 10:41 pm | Indian Database Service Provider…
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