Obama's father went to Harvard to pursue studies and then returned to Kenya. His mother married Lolo Soetoro, another EastWest Center student from Indonesia. In 1967, the family moved to Jakarta, where Obama's half-sister Maya SoetoroNg 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. Further education and career. Barack Obama was enrolled in the fifth grade at the esteemed Punahou Academy, graduating with honors in 1979. He was only one of three black students at the school. This is where
intervention, and ordered the military operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. Obama's parents and childhood Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas, where her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dunham's father, Stanley, enlisted in the service and marched across Europe in Patton's army. Dunham's mother, Madelyn, went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, the couple studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program and, after several moves, landed in Hawaii. Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr. was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. The older Obama grew up herding goats in Africa, eventually earning a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams of college in Hawaii. While studying at the University of Hawaii in Manoa, Obama, Sr
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