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Barack Obama’s Early Life

Obama’s father, also named Barack Hussein Obama, grew up in a small village in Nyanza Province, Kenya, as a member of the Luo ethnicity. He won a scholarship to study economics at the University of Hawaii, where he met and married Ann Dunham, a white woman from Wichita, Kansas, whose father had worked on oil rigs during the Great Depression and fought with the U.S.

Army in World War II before moving his family to Hawaii in Barack and Ann’s son, Barack Hussein Obama Jr., was born in Honolulu on August 4,

Obama’s parents later separated, and Barack Sr.

went back to Kenya. He would see his son only once more before dying in a car accident in Ann remarried in She and her new husband, an Indonesian man named Lolo Soetoro, moved with her young son to Jakarta in the late s, where Ann wor