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Barack Obama just lost his matriach and grandmother Sarah Ogwel Onyango who died in Kenya after a brief illness. 
Sarah Ogwel Onyango Obama‘s daughter shared the news Monday, saying her mother had died at a hospital in the city of Kisumu in Kenya, a family spokesperson shared that Mama Sarah had been sick for a week, but did not die of COVID-19.
The matriarch of the Barack Obama family and second wife of Barack’s grandfather, Mama Sarah was passionate about raising money to educate girls and orphans in Kenya. She even had a foundation that fed and educated children who lost their parents.
Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, released a statement on Mama Sarah’s death, saying, “The passing away of Mama Sarah is a big blow to our nation. We’ve lost a strong, virtuous woman. A matriarch who held together the Obama family and was an icon of family values.”
