Barack Hussein Obama Senior was a Kenyan
senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44th
president of the United States. Obama Senior won a scholarship to study in the
United States, and eventually became a senior economist in the Kenyan
government. Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Kansas, Texas, and
Washington state before her family settled in Honolulu. In 1960 she and Barack
Senior met in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii and married
less than a year later.

When Obama was age two, Barack Senior left
to study at Harvard University; shortly thereafter, in 1964, Ann and Barack
Senior divorced. Obama saw his father only one more time, during a brief visit
when he was 10. Later Ann remarried, this time to another foreign student, Lolo
Soetoro from Indonesia, with whom she had a second child, Maya. Obama lived for
several years in Jakarta with his half-sister, mother, and stepfather. While
there, Obama attended both a government-run school where he received some
instruction in Islam and a Catholic private school where he took part in
Christian schooling.

Obama first worked in an oil company,
before beginning work as an economist with the Kenyan Ministry of Transport. He
got a promotion to senior economic analyst in the Ministry of Finance. He was
among a cadre of young Kenyan men who had been educated in the West in a
program supported by Tom Mboya. Obama Senior had conflicts with Kenyan
president Jomo Kenyatta, which adversely affected his career. He was fired and
blacklisted in Kenya, finding it nearly impossible to get a job. Obama Senior
was involved in three serious car accidents during his final years; he died as
a result of the last one in 1982.

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