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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. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995). Obama ...
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]
Stanley Armour Dunham (March 23, 1918 – February 8, 1992) was the maternal grandfather of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. He and his wife Madelyn Payne Dunham raised Obama from the age of 10 in Honolulu, Hawaii. [1][2]
Zeituni Onyango, half-aunt of Barack Obama, [199] was born May 29, 1952, in Kenya. [200] Onyango is referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in Obama's memoir Dreams from My Father. [201] She entered the US in 2000 on a temporary visa with her son who was going to school; she applied in 2002 for political asylum due to unrest in Kenya and ethnic conflict.
Relatives. Barack Obama (former stepson) Lolo Soetoro (EYD: Lolo Sutoro; Javanese pronunciation: [ˈlɒlɒ suːˈtɒrɒː]; 2 January 1935 [1] – 2 March 1987), also known as Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo[2][3] or Mangundikardjo, [4] was an Indonesian geographer who was the ex-stepfather of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. [5]
Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995) was an American anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia. [1] She was the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Dunham studied at the East–West Center and at the University of ...
Barack Obama, too, is biracial with an immigrant father from Kenya, while Harris’ parents hail from Jamaica and India. Obama was raised primarily by his white mother and Harris, as she said in ...
Dreams from My Father. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) is a memoir by Barack Obama that explores the events of his early years in Honolulu and Chicago until his entry into Harvard Law School in 1988. Obama originally published his memoir in 1995, when he was starting his political campaign for the Illinois Senate.