My Mother, By Barrack Obama |The Source

Barrack Obama, the 44th President of America, has praised his mother to high heavens while promoting his new book, A Promised Land.

Obama recounted how his mother made him the man he is today. “My mother shaped me”, he said.

Obama was born of an American mother, and a Kenyan father, whose name he bears. But he was brought out by his mother, Dr Ann Dunham,  after she divorced from his father.

The former President, also,  flaunted a throwback photograph of his mother, carrying him as a baby.

Obama: “As I recount in my book, A Promised Land, my mother, Ann Dunham, was strong, smart, and marched to her own beat.

“For her, the world offered endless opportunities for moral instruction. My sister,  Maya, and I got early lessons about the struggle for civil rights, the impact of poverty on people around the world, and the importance of respecting other cultures and considering other points of view.

“My mother believed that power came not from putting people down, but rather through lifting them up.

“And she was always certain that in the face of injustice and humanity’s more primal impulses, logic and progress would always prevail.

“The world is complicated, bar,” she used to say. “that’s why it’s interesting.”

A promised Land is already enjoying raving reviews in the Media, including one by Nigeria’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.