How can you tear-gas your own people? Listen to them. Listen to these children; they’re the future. - Auma Obama

Germans always like to think that they have a very liberal attitude towards Africans. But when you scratch the surface you can see that they they still carry around the prejudices of their childhood. In German fairy tales black people always appear as the bogey man. You don't forget things like that so easily.

My brother is authentic. He really believes in what he is trying to do. So there’s no hidden agenda. In that sense, he really is an open book. And I think that authenticity, that passion, and the image and the drive—it resonates with people.

I'm proud of our name because my brother has really carried our name up there ... it's made its mark in the world.