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Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (/ ˈ b ær ə k h uː ˈ s eɪ n oʊ ˈ b ɑː m ə /; [9] [10] 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 ...
Barack Obama Sr., father of Barack Obama, was the son of Onyango and his second wife Habiba Akumu Obama. Educated in the US at the University of Hawaiʻi and Harvard University, he returned to Kenya, where he became an economist with the government. He served in the ministries of transportation and finance.
Mboya's role in Kenya's politics and transformation is the subject of increasing interest, especially with the prominence of American politician Barack Obama. Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., was a US-educated Kenyan who benefited from Mboya's scholarship program in the 1960s, going on to get married during his stay there, fathering the future ...
U.S. President Barack Obama dined with his step-grandmother, his half-sister and other extended family members after arriving in Kenya for his first presidential visit to his father's homeland on ...
President Barack Obama arrived in Kenya to visit his father's ancestral home Friday. He was greeted by President Uhuru Kenyatta and other key officials at the airport. There's one woman in ...
Father: Barack Hussein Obama, goat herder-turned-economist. Mother: Stanley Ann (Dunham) Obama Soetoro, anthropologist. ... November 24, 1982 - Barack Obama Sr. dies in a car accident in Kenya.
Barack Obama recounts how his parents met and his own life until his enrollment at Harvard Law School in 1988. His parents were Barack Obama Sr. of Kenya, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas, who had met while they were students at the University of Hawaii. In the first chapter, speaking of his father and namesake, Obama states "[h]e had left ...
Slide through the timeline above for information on President Barack Obama's family history. Despite all of the judgment that Obama has faced surrounding his ancestry, his visit to Kenya will be ...