Obama's brother in Shanghai to promote bio-novel

President Barack Obam’s half-brother attended this year’s Shanghai Book Fair, where he signed autographs and promoted his semi-autobiography novel ‘Nairobi to Shenzhen’ says organisers. Mark Ndesandjo works as a consultant in the ousther city of Shenzhen, while also writing and engaging in charity projects. He made an appearance at Shanghai’s annual fair on Wednesday signing Chinese edition of his book, organiser Guo Jinyang said. The diary-form novel tells the story of abusive parent, patterned on his and Obama’s Kenyan father, Ndesadjo’s mother and the senior Obama’s third wife, Ruth Nidesand, was an American. She eventually divorced the senior Obama, who died in a car accident in 1982 at the age of 46.

Ndesandjo, who is an American citizen, spent most of his childhood in Kenya before moving to the  U.S to attend college and work in telecommunications and marketing. He moved to the booming city of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, in 2001. He mostly shunned publicity. In Obama’s own best-selling memoir, Dreams from my father, the president wrote about his fatherless upbringing and search for identity.