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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 /; [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.
Jul 1, 2011 · Sally H. Jacobs' new biography, The Other Barack, follows the troubled life of Barack Obama Sr. — from Kenya to Hawaii and back.
Nov 16, 2020 · Former president Barack Obama has written extensively about his parents and family, and continues to tell their story in his new memoir A Promised Land. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was a successful Kenyan economist, while his mother Ann Dunham was an accomplished American anthropologist.
Sep 12, 2020 · Barack Obama Sr., father of the 43rd President of the United States, was born in the Rachuonyo District, in the then British colony of Kenya, on June 18, 1936, to Onyango Obama and Habiba Akumu Nyanjango.
Obama Sr. returned to Kenya in 1964, where he married for a third time and worked for the Kenyan government as the Senior Economic Analyst in the Ministry of Finance. [25] He visited his son in Hawaii only once, at Christmas 1971, [26] before he was killed in an automobile accident in 1982, when Obama was 21 years old. [27]
2 days ago · Barack Obama (born August 4, 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) is the 44th president of the United States (2009–17) and the first African American to hold the office. Before winning the presidency, Obama represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate (2005–08).
Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (/ ˈbærək huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə /; born Baraka Obama, 18 June 1934 – 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).
Jul 11, 2011 · As a child in rural Kenya, Obama Sr. cobbled together the best education he could; when he was denied a spot on the famous 1959 East African student airlift, he made his own way to America.
Jun 18, 2016 · Letters written long ago by Barack Obama Sr. shed new light on a young Kenyan whose ambitions helped change the course of U.S. history. But for the president, they may also revive old pain.
father of Barack Obama. In Barack Obama: Early life. Obama’s father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a teenage goatherd in rural Kenya, won a scholarship to study in the United States, and eventually became a senior economist in the Kenyan government.
