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Zeituni Onyango ( ; May 29, 1952 – April 7, 2014) was known as the half-aunt of United States President Barack Obama; she was born into the Luo tribe in Kenya.〔(Barack Obama's aunt found living in rundown public housing estate )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AP pronunciation guide )〕〔 Born during the British rule of the Protectorate of Kenya, Onyango was the half-sister of Barack Obama, Sr., father to the president.〔 The younger Obama refers to her as "Aunti Zeituni" in his 1995 memoir, ''Dreams from My Father''. In 2002 she had applied for political asylum in the United States but was denied. She became notable when her case was leaked in the final days of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign in which Barack Obama was the Democratic candidate, attracting international media attention.〔 In 2000, Onyango entered the United States on a temporary visa to accompany her son to college; she remained past its expiration date. In 2002 she sought political asylum in the United States, citing ethnic violence, as Kenya and East Africa had suffered an escalation in violence in the 2000s.〔〔 Her case was denied in 2004. She remained in South Boston, Massachusetts, where she lived in public housing, and retained legal representation to try to gain asylum.〔 Her case highlighted "the hot-button topic of illegal immigration" in a presidential race that had avoided it, as well as contradictory rules governing eligibility for public housing in Massachusetts.〔 The Massachusetts Department of Human Services investigated how her case was leaked. There was heightened federal administrative review on asylum deportations until after the 2008 general election.〔 Onyango's case is often cited in light of immigration reform efforts of the Obama administration.〔("Bush admin. makes immigration strides in 2008" )〕 ==Early life and family== Zeituni Onyango was born in 1952 into the Luo tribe in Kenya, daughter of Onyango Obama and his third wife Sarah Onyango Obama. She was a much younger half-sister to Barack Obama, Sr., the son of their father's second wife.〔〔〔〔 She was born during the British rule of the Protectorate of Kenya.〔 Onyango became educated and worked as a computer programmer at Kenya Breweries in Nairobi. In 1988, she met her American half-nephew, Barack Obama, during his first trip to Kenya at the age of 27. He was meeting with his father's side of his family for the first time.〔 His parents had separated when Obama was two, and his time afterward with his father was limited to a month's visit in Hawaii when the boy was 10.〔("Obama's extraordinary journey" )〕 Barack Obama, Sr. remarried in Kenya and fathered about six children; he died in 1982. Obama's trip to Kenya was to meet and learn more about the many members of the paternal side of his family.〔 At the time, Onyango gave Obama perspective on his father and his achievements, noting that, when Barack Sr. left Kenya for Hawaii in 1959 to go to college, he was the first in the family to travel by airplane and to study abroad. She also provided details about the complicated extended family from his father's four marriages (two of which were polygamous). Barack Obama Sr. fathered six sons and a daughter in addition to Obama. As of 2010, all but one live in Britain or the United States; Mark Obama Ndesandjo lives in China.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ancestry of Barack Obama )〕 After returning to Kenya with a master's degree from Harvard University, Barack Sr. became an economist in the government. He eventually rose to become senior economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Finance before political conflict with President Kenyatta destroyed his career. In his memoir ''Dreams from My Father'' (1995), Barack Obama wrote about his journey to Kenya, including meeting Onyango, whom he called "Aunti Zeituni".〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zeituni Onyango」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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