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Watch a video A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother.
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 1959. Barack and Ann’s son, Barack Hussein Obama Jr., was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961.
Did you know? Not only was Obama the first African American president, he was also the first to be born outside the continental United States.
Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961.
Obama’s parents later separated, and Barack Sr. went back to Kenya.
Takeshi Obata · Elizabeth Ruth Obbard · Ruth Obbard · Eddie Obeng Sibylle von Olfers · Stephen Olford · Dr Stephen F Olford · Wally Olins.He would see his son only once more before dying in a car accident in 1982. Ann remarried in 1965. She and her new husband, an Indonesian man named Lolo Soetoro, moved with her young son to Jakarta