Obama’s Remarkable Brother

The last 48 hours have been a remarkable time in American, and world, history. I am hopeful that President-elect Obama surrounds himself with the right people, including Larry Summers, and not Tim Geithner, for Treasury Secretary. But he has a blank slate, and I am looking forward to seeing what he comes up with. Selling S&P futures the minute the President show up on TV will hopefully a thing of the past.

But one remarkable guy that will not be a part of the news administration is Obama’s half brother, Mark Ndesandjo, who lives in China.

We could probably use him here....he is not only an entrepreneur, but a good all around guy it would seem:

Mark teaches piano in an orphanage, according to a March 2004 article in the Nanfangnet Daily:

Mark doesn’t have much money. His goal is to bring the art of music to the orphans. He believed an orphan’s life needs not only the essentials. The arts are needed, too. Mark began teaching piano lessons at the orphanage every week – at least until events of this year overtook him. Since 2002, Mark has taught several dozen piano students. Two of his students studied with him for more than two years, one is Xing Yun, who went on to college in Guangzhou. The other is Long Ben.

His bio is as follows:

Mark is a writer, painter and composer who spends most of his time in Asia and USA. He was born in Kenya. He studied at Brown and Stanford Universities. He published 3 CDs and one book. The book’s title is Observations in Africa and others. This (semi-autobiographical) book is about a young Kenyan man who immigrated to the US and lived in a metropolitan city there. He studied Communications and worked at Lucent Technologies and Notel Networks in high positions. His hobbies included sky diving, skiing and surfing.

You can read more about him below...hat tip to Niubi.

Mark Ndesandjo
Thomas Crampton Blog

Obama’s Brother in China
New York Times

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