Obama’s Early Life

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.

Barack 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.

Obama 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.