Barrack
Hussein Obama junior was born on Thursday 4 August 1961 in Hawai. His mother,
Dunham Ann was born and brought up in Kansas where her father, Obama’s grandfather,
worked in petroleum industry during the great depression. He later joined the
army after the Pearl Harbor attach by the Japanese army. Ann’s mother, Obama’s
grandmother, worked in bomber assembly center while her husband went to war. After
the end of World War II, the couple bought a house in Honolulu, Hawaii where they
lived.
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Obama’s father, Obama senior was born in Kenya. The father was a Luo, a tribe
commonly found in Nyanza Province. As a young boy, Obama Sr. helped his parents
graze their herd of goats while going to a local school. Later he earned a
scholarship that allowed him to travel to United States and study in the
University of Hawaii. Here he met Ann Dunham and they married in February,
1961, 6 months before their first born, Brack Obama Jr. was born.
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Sr. and Ann separated in 1963, when Obama Jr. was just over 2 years. Obama’s
father moved on after the divorce and enrolled for a Ph.D. in Harvard
University and graduated in 1965. After his graduation, Obama Sr. returned to
Kenya. Dunham met and married another young man from Indonesia. In 1967 Obama’s
sister Maya Soetoro Ng was born. Many incidences in Indonesia prompted Ann to
send Obama Jr. back to the United States to live with his grandmother in Hawaii
while he continued with his studies.
