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She had two half-brothers, Barack Obama (born 1961), the 44th president of the United States, and Bayu Yusuf Aji Soetoro (born 1981), and a half-sisters, Rahayu Nurmaida Soetoro (born 1984). [4] She also had an adoptive sister, Holiah Soetoro (1957–2010). [4] [5] Soetoro-Ng has said she was named after American poet Maya Angelou. [6]
Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama's half-sister, was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. [85] She has a half-brother and half-sister, Yusuf and Aya Soetoro, from her father's second marriage. She is married to Canadian-American Konrad Ng, with whom she has two daughters, Suhaila and Savita. Maya Soetoro-Ng is a teacher in Hawaii. [86]
Soetoro met the divorced Ann Dunham at the East-West Center while both were students at the University of Hawaii, [10] [11] [12] and married on 15 March 1965. [12] [13] Soetoro, a geographer, [12] [14] returned to Indonesia in 1966 [15] to help map Western New Guinea [16] for the Indonesian government, while Dunham and her son Barack Obama moved into her parents' house in Honolulu to complete ...
Aug. 6—Two rival communities come together to combat environmental disaster in a new children's book co-authored by Hawaii's Maya Soetoro-Ng, a well-known peace activist and academic. Two ...
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.
Obama and his half-sister, Maya Soetoro referred to Dunham as "Toot"—short for "tutu", the Hawaiian word for grandmother. [13] In his book, Obama described Dunham as "quiet yet firm", in contrast to his "boisterous" grandfather. [5] Obama considered his grandmother "a trailblazer of sorts, the first woman vice-president of a local bank". [14]
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 ...
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