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Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr., the university's first foreign student from an African nation, [4] hailed from Oriang' Kogelo, Rachuonyo North District, in the Nyanza Province of western Kenya. [2] [5] Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, known as Ann, had been born in Wichita. They married on the Hawaiian island of Maui on February 2, 1961. [6]
Barack Obama Sr. was born in 1934 [2] [3] in Rachuonyo District [11] on the shores of Lake Victoria just outside Kendu Bay, Kenya, at the time a colony and protectorate of the British Empire. He was raised in the village of Nyang'oma Kogelo, Siaya District, Nyanza Province. [12] His family were members of the Luo people. [13]
Barack Obama's half-brother, also known as Abongo or Roy, was born c. March 1958, the son of Barack Obama Sr. and his first wife, Kezia. [143] Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, [144] he earned a degree in accounting from the University of Nairobi. [145]
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On February 28, 2011, on Steve Malzberg's radio program Mike Huckabee, a 2008 candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, falsely claimed that Obama had been raised in Kenya [190] and that "[Obama] probably grew up hearing that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather."
He was born and raised in Jericho estate in Nairobi. and many others.. It was the home of Barack Obama, Sr., a senior economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Finance, his first wife, and their children. [citation needed] Obama is the father of United States President Barack Obama by his second wife.