Books by Sally H. Jacobs, Sally H. Jacobs

The author is Sally H. Jacobs and the subtitle is The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama’s Father .  But forget about “our Obama” and read this as a biography of colonialism, the 1960s, interracial relations, and most of all the East African intelligentsia.  In addition to being a life story, it’s an excellent treatment of those topics.  Here is one of the soggier excerpts: