World | Barack Obama Obama Brother Surfaces in Britain Kenyan Bernard 'so proud' of candidate By Matt Cantor Posted Jul 26, 2008 10:53 AM CDT Copied In this Aug. 26, 2006 file photo, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., claps hands with his grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, at his father's house in Nyongoma Kogelo village in western Kenya. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim) Barack Obama’s Kenyan half-brother Bernard has emerged in England after a British tabloid tracked him down. Bernard Obama told the Sun he was “proud of my brother” and said he was sure Barack would win the White House. “He will be a breath of fresh air for the world,” said Bernard, 37, who was visiting his mother in the UK. Obama has eight half-siblings. Bernard, who runs a car parts company in Nairobi, shares a father, Barack Sr., with the presidential hopeful. The elder Barack married Bernard’s mother Kezia in 1957 in Kenya; he was educated in Hawaii, where he had Obama with his second wife, Ann Dunham, and later returned to Kenya, where he became a leading government economist. “I was around 17 when I first met Barack,” said Bernard. “It was obvious from the way he spoke that he was going to be a success.” Read These Next A reward is offered in the Montana manhunt. President Trump weighs in on Sydney Sweeney. Trump not happy after Charlamagne tha God's suggestion for 2028. The latest trend in male enhancement involves a syringe. Report an error