Word: brotherism
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...wasn't the first character created to personify the United States. Before the fictional Uncle Sam came the Revolutionary War-era Brother Jonathan. Brother Jonathan wore striped pants, a hat and a long military jacket (Uncle Sam's fashion inspiration, apparently...
...When brother Obama became President Obama, his family was asleep. Uncle Elly was snoring. Half-brother Malki was tucked in his hut and even Uncle Tom had run out of moonshine. This was Kogelo village in western Kenya this morning, a very, very quiet corner of Africa...
...buys two impressive looking animals for 17,000 Kenyan shillings each (around $220), well above the normal price. The implications of Barack Obama's rise will be discussed for years. But for Malik, one lesson is already clear: Don't buy a cow on the day your half-brother is expected to be elected President of the United States...
Blood flowed as Election Day dawned in Barack Obama's ancestral village in western Kenya. The presidential candidate's half-brother Malik tied a bull to a tree, then hobbled it, and asked me to hold the beast's head to the ground as he drew a machete across its jugular. "Hold this guy down now," said Malik, 50, eyeing the animal's horns as blood poured from its throat like an open tap. "He could kill me now." After five minutes, the blood flow began to slow, and the fight went out of the animal, which stopped kicking...
...Obama's campaign cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and for his half-brother in Kenya, it has proved to be no less taxing. As well as feeding 50 people a day, he has had to buy a new television on which to watch the election and a generator to power it, and to ensure that the entire family is turned out in best Kenyan finery. In addition, he finds himself dealing with the fallout from his brother's fame, as villagers stop him on the street and ask for money. "These people think I'm suddenly a millionaire," said...