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Barack Hussein Obama
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Form 9
Basic School
2009
Barack’s childhood and parents .
Barack Hussein Obama was born August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii .
His father , Sr. Barack Obama, was born in Kenya . He grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a  domestic servant to the British .
Obama’s  mother , Ann Dunham, grew up in  Wichita , Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression . After the Japanese attack on  Pearl Harbor, he  signed up for service in World War II and marched across Europe in Patton’s  army .
Dunham’s mother went to  work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, they bought a house through the Federal Housing Program , and moved to Hawaii.
Meantime, Barack’s father had won a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya pursue his dreams in Hawaii. At the time of his birth , Obama’s parents were students at the East – West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Obama’s parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced. Obama’s father went to Harvard to pursue studies and then returned to Kenya.
His mother married Lolo Soetoro, another East–West Center student from Indonesia . In 1967, the family moved to Jakarta, where Obama’s half- sister Maya Soetoro–Ng was born. Obama attended schools in Jakarta, where classes were taught in the Indonesian language .
Four years later when Barack (he was called as "Barry") was ten, he returned to Hawaii to  live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, and later his mother. His mother died of cancer in 1995.
He saw his biological father only once (in  1971 ) after his parents divorced. And he admitted using alcohol , marijuana and cocaine during his teenage years. His biological father died in a 1982 car accident .
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