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Synopsis:

Barack Obama is my inspiration, says lost brother.

Senator Barack Obama's "lost" half-brother has said his famous relative was the inspiration who helped him turn his life around.

George Hussein Obama, 26, was discovered this week living in a shack on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital Nairobi. He told The Daily Telegraph that although he had hardly spoken to his half-brother, the Democratic candidate's book Dreams Of My Father was providing the inspiration to lift himself out of poverty.

"When you have a brother who wants to be the number one most important person in the world, it obviously gives you a lot of inspiration," Mr Obama, 26, said at his corrugated tin shack in a Nairobi slum.

"There was a long time when I was just taking a break, doing nothing, trying to find myself and what I wanted to do. Now I am more focused on my future, and I can say it is because I understand more about things because of hearing what Barack is doing." ...

Publish date:

22 August 2008

Author:

Mike Pflanz

Source:

Daily Telegraph

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