Facts: US Senator Kamala Harris has no Kenyan roots, not Kamau Halisi or Khamala

California Senator Kamala Harris.PHOTO | AFP

 

California Senator Kamala Harris has no Kenyan roots. She is an United States politician and lawyer serving as the junior United States senator from California since 2017.


The 55-year-old is a member of the Democratic Party.

She is the first African American and the first Asian American to be chosen as the running mate of a major party's presidential candidate.
 
 

Harris was born and raised in Oakland, California where her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a breast-cancer scientist who had emigrated from Tamil Nadu, India in 1960 to pursue a doctorate in endocrinology at UC Berkeley.


Her father, Donald Harris, is a Stanford University emeritus professor of economics, who emigrated from British Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics at UC Berkeley.

Agikuyu, nyumba, this is Senator Kamala Harris and neither KamaRa HaLLis nor Kamau Halisi. Please, let us speak her name slowly🙆🏾‍♂️. Niwega🙏🏾. pic.twitter.com/OuSBLCUNs4

— Dr. Lemaiyan Karugia J. PhD. (@johnnjenga) August 11, 2020