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Stanley Armour Dunham, Ann Dunham, Maya Soetoro and Barack Obama, mid-1970s (l to r) On August 21, 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state to be admitted into the Union. Dunham's parents sought business opportunities in the new state, and after graduating from high school in 1960, Dunham and her family moved to Honolulu.
Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (/ ˈ b ær ə k h uː ˈ s eɪ n oʊ ˈ b ɑː m ə /; [8] [9] born Baraka Obama, 18 June 1934 [2] [3] – 24 November 1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995). Obama ...
At 10 years old, Barack Obama moved in with the Dunhams in Honolulu to attend school in the U.S. while his mother and stepfather Lolo Soetoro were living in Jakarta, Indonesia. His mother later came back to Hawaii to pursue graduate studies, but when she returned to Indonesia in 1977 for her master's fieldwork, Obama stayed in the United States ...
Father: Barack Hussein Obama, goat herder-turned-economist. Mother: Stanley Ann (Dunham) Obama Soetoro, anthropologist. Marriage: Michelle (Robinson) Obama (October 3, 1992-present)
[34] [35] In December 1971, Obama was visited for a month by his father, Barack Obama Sr., from Kenya. It was the last time Obama would see his father. This was followed by his mother visiting her son and parents in Honolulu from late 1971 to January 1972. In 1972, Dunham returned to Hawaii, bringing along the young Maya, Obama's half-sister.
Barack Obama is reflecting on his childhood ahead of the release of his memoir, A Promised Land. The former president penned a touching note about how his "largely absent" father altered his ...
Barack Obama, too, is biracial with an immigrant father from Kenya, while Harris’ parents hail from Jamaica and India. ... Obama was raised primarily by his white mother and Harris, as she said ...
Onyango was the fifth son of his mother, Nyaoke, who was the first of the five wives of his father, Obama. [109] Barack Obama relates how his step-grandmother Granny Sarah (Sarah Onyango Obama) describes his grandfather: "Even from the time that he was a boy, your grandfather Onyango was strange. It is said of him that he had ants up his anus ...