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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 /; 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). Obama married in 1954 ...
Jul 1, 2011 · President Obama's Father: A 'Bold And Reckless Life' Sally H. Jacobs' new biography, The Other Barack, follows the troubled life of Barack Obama Sr. — from Kenya to Hawaii and back....
Sep 12, 2020 · September 12, 2020 contributed by: Euell A. Dixon. Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. Fair use image. 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.
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.
Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr. (1934–1982), was a married Luo Kenyan from Nyang'oma Kogelo. His last name, Obama, was derived from his Luo descent. Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where his father was a foreign student on a scholarship.
Aug 23, 2008 · Barack Sr., or Senior, as most of his family members call him, carried his sense of purpose into his professional life in Kenya. He went to work at the Ministry of Planning and National Development.
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).
