About Barack Obama Sr.
Barack Hussein Obama was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, a former president of the United States. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995). Obama married in 1954 and had two children with his first wife, Kezia. He was selected for a special program to attend college in the United States and studied at the University of Hawaii where he met Stanley Ann Dunham, whom he married in 1961 following the conception of his son, Barack. Obama and Dunham divorced three years later. Obama then went to Harvard University for graduate school, where he earned an MA in economics, and returned to Kenya in 1964. He saw his son Barack once more, when his son was about 10. Obama first worked for an oil company, before beginning work as an economist with the Kenyan Ministry of Transport. In 1959, Obama enrolled at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu as the university's first African foreign student.
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