Thursday, December 29, 2011

Intimate details of Jennifer Hudson’s Kenyan fatherin law revealed


Singing sensation Jenifer Hudson’s husband David Otunga has his roots in Kenya. According to American paper Tribune, David’s dad, Moses D. Otunga was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. He was 20 when he jetted off to the United States as part of a program to bring international students to American universities.
However, Moses who was a civics teacher and division chairman at Streamwood High School, suffered an apparent heart attack Sunday, March 9, 2003 as he made his daily trip to a local newsstand and died in St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin.
The Tribune also reveals that he read as many as eight newspapers a day. Friends often brought him out-of-town papers from their travels. The newspaper recycler was so impressed by the quantity of newspapers he was collecting that he approached Moses one day to shake his hand, his wife, Billie said.
Moses is survived by two daughters, Lisha Linder and Lisi Clements; a son, David; two sisters and a brother in Kenya; and six grandchildren.
He earned a bachelor's degree in history from Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais and two master's degrees and a certificate of advanced study from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, where he specialized in American and modern European history. In 1980 he completed a doctorate in education at Northern Illinois.
With higher education so widely available, "he couldn't understand why people in this country didn't go to college," his wife said. Moses sponsored the school's multicultural council and encouraged minority students to become leaders.
BY GRACE KERONG
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