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Auma lived in the United Kingdom, for a while after her studies. While there, she helped her mother, Kezia to relocate from Kenya to the UK. Kezia was granted British citizenship in 2011.

In 2011, Auma Obama was interviewed for Turk Pipkin's documentary Building Hope and was the subject of a German documentary film The Education of Auma Obama. In 2017 Auma Obama was honoured with the fourth International TÜV Rheinland Global Compact Award in Cologne. At the award ceremony, she received the solely made for the award bronze sculpture ‘Der Griff nach den Sternen’ (Reaching for the stars) by artist Hannes Helmke. Auma is the author of a book, And Then Life Happens, released in 2012 by St. Martin's Press.

In 1996, Auma married an Englishman, Ian Manners, together they are the parents of a daughter, Akinyi (b. 1997). Auma and Ian Manners, divorced in 2000. In 2007, Auma and Akinyi relocated to Kenya.

After attending local elementary and secondary schools, she secured a scholarship to attend university in Germany. She studied German at Heidelberg University from 1981 until 1987. After her graduation from Heidelberg, she went on for graduate studies at the University of Bayreuth, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1996. She also studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. Obama's final project at the Film Academy was the twenty-minute film All That Glitters (1993), which blends genre conventions in depicting the vulnerability of black lives in post-unification Germany.

Rita Auma Obama (born 1960), is a community activist, sociologist, journalist and author in Kenya, and also the half-sister of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama who serves as the Executive Chairperson, of Sauti Kuu Foundation, a non-profit organisation that helps orphans and other young people struggling with poverty, in the East African country.

Auma (born c. 1960), is the daughter of Barack Obama Sr. and his first wife, Kezia (née Kezia Aoko). She is the older half-sister of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama.