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While still living near [[Kendu Bay]], Obama Sr. attended Gendia Primary School and transferred to Ng’iya Intermediate School once his family moved to Siaya District.<ref name="Oywa 2008b"/> From 1950 to 1953, he studied at [[Maseno School|Maseno National School]], an exclusive Christian boarding school in [[Maseno]] that is run by the [[Anglican Church of Kenya]].<ref>Obama (1995, 2004), p. 418.</ref> The head teacher, B.L. Bowers, described Obama Sr. in his records as "very keen, steady, trustworthy and friendly. Concentrates, reliable and out-going."<ref name="Oywa 2008a">{{cite news |author=Oywa, John |date=4 November 2008 |title=Tracing Obama Snr’s steps as a student at Maseno School |newspaper=The Standard |location=Nairobi |url=http://www.eastandard.net/obama/InsidePage.php?id=1143998493&cid=530& |accessdate=8 November 2008}} {{dead link|date=January 2011}}</ref> In 1954, after attending the Maseno National School, Obama Sr. was married for the first time at the age of eighteen, to [[Kezia Obama|Kezia Aoko]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Fascinating story of Obama family |newspaper=The Standard |location=Nairobi |url=http://www.eastandard.net/uselections/InsidePage.php?id=1143998528 |accessdate=11 July 2009}}{{dead link|date=January 2011}}</ref> in a tribal ceremony. They had two children, [[Malik Obama|Malik]] (a.k.a. [[Family of Barack Obama|Roy]]) and [[Auma Obama|Auma]], during the early years of their marriage. Later, while Obama Sr. was married to his third wife, Kezia had [[Abo Obama|Abo]] and [[Bernard Obama|Bernard]], thought to be with Obama Sr.,<ref name="Foreman">{{cite news |author=Foreman, William|agency=Associated Press|date=4 November 2009 |title=Obama's half brother: our father was abusive; new novel 'Nairobi to Shenzhen' is patterned in part on Barack Obama, Sr. |publisher=msnbc.com |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33608282/ns/today-white_house |accessdate=5 November 2009}}</ref> but in ''Dreams from My Father'', it is stated that the Obama family questions whether Abo and Bernard are his biological sons.<ref>Obama (1995, 2004), p.335.</ref>
While still living near [[Kendu Bay]], Obama Sr. attended Gendia Primary School and transferred to Ng’iya Intermediate School once his family moved to Siaya District.<ref name="Oywa 2008b"/> From 1950 to 1953, he studied at [[Maseno School|Maseno National School]], an exclusive Christian boarding school in [[Maseno]] that is run by the [[Anglican Church of Kenya]].<ref>Obama (1995, 2004), p. 418.</ref> The head teacher, B.L. Bowers, described Obama Sr. in his records as "very keen, steady, trustworthy and friendly. Concentrates, reliable and out-going."<ref name="Oywa 2008a">{{cite news |author=Oywa, John |date=4 November 2008 |title=Tracing Obama Snr’s steps as a student at Maseno School |newspaper=The Standard |location=Nairobi |url=http://www.eastandard.net/obama/InsidePage.php?id=1143998493&cid=530& |accessdate=8 November 2008}} {{dead link|date=January 2011}}</ref> In 1954, after attending the Maseno National School, Obama Sr. was married for the first time at the age of eighteen, to [[Kezia Obama|Kezia Aoko]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Fascinating story of Obama family |newspaper=The Standard |location=Nairobi |url=http://www.eastandard.net/uselections/InsidePage.php?id=1143998528 |accessdate=11 July 2009}}{{dead link|date=January 2011}}</ref> in a tribal ceremony. They had two children, [[Malik Obama|Malik]] (a.k.a. [[Family of Barack Obama|Roy]]) and [[Auma Obama|Auma]], during the early years of their marriage. Later, while Obama Sr. was married to his third wife, Kezia had [[Abo Obama|Abo]] and [[Bernard Obama|Bernard]], thought to be with Obama Sr.,<ref name="Foreman">{{cite news |author=Foreman, William|agency=Associated Press|date=4 November 2009 |title=Obama's half brother: our father was abusive; new novel 'Nairobi to Shenzhen' is patterned in part on Barack Obama, Sr. |publisher=msnbc.com |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33608282/ns/today-white_house |accessdate=5 November 2009}}</ref> but in ''Dreams from My Father'', it is stated that the Obama family questions whether Abo and Bernard are his biological sons.<ref>Obama (1995, 2004), p.335.</ref>


In 1959, Obama Sr. received a scholarship in economics through a program organized by nationalist leader [[Tom Mboya]]. The program offered Western educational opportunities to outstanding Kenyan students.<ref name="Dobbs">{{cite news |author=Dobbs, Michael |date=30 March 2008 |title=Obama overstates Kennedys' role in helping his father| newspaper=The Washington Post |page=A1 |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/29/AR2008032902031.html |accessdate=24 February 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Winfrey, Oprah |date=15 February 2007 |title=Oprah talks to Bobby Kennedy Jr. |magazine=O, The Oprah Magazine |url=http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/oprahscut/omag_200702_ocut |accessdate=14 August 2009}}</ref><ref name="Jacobs 2008">{{cite news |author=Jacobs, Sally |date=21 September 2008 |title=A father's charm, absence |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=1A |url=http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/09/21/a_fathers_charm_absence |accessdate=14 August 2009 |quote=... Pake Zane, 66, who attended the University of Hawaii with Obama and had not publicly discussed their 1974 conversation until now. Zane was astonished at the transformation in his once vibrant friend, who had been divorced by his third wife a year before.}}</ref> Initial financial supporters of the program included [[Harry Belafonte]], [[Sidney Poitier]], [[Jackie Robinson]], and [[Elizabeth Mooney Kirk]], a literacy advocate who provided most of the financial support for Obama Sr.'s early years in the United States, according to the Tom Mboya archives at [[Stanford University]]. Funds provided the following year by [[John F. Kennedy]]'s family paid off old debts of the project and subsidized student stipends, thereby indirectly benefiting Obama Sr. and other members of the 1959 group of scholarship holders. During the 2008 presidential campaign, his son misspoke, saying that the Kennedys organized the initial 1959 student airlift, an error subsequently acknowledged by a campaign spokesman.<ref name="Dobbs"/> When Obama Sr. left for America, he left behind his baby son, Roy, and his young wife, Kezia, who was pregnant with their daughter, Auma.<ref name="Rice">{{cite news |author=Rice, Xan |date=6 June 2008 |title={{-'}}Barack's voice was just like his father's—I thought he had come back from the dead{{'-}} |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/06/barackobama.uselections2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London | accessdate=10 June 2008}}</ref>
In 1959, Obama Sr. received a scholarship in sexual harassment through a program organized by nationalist leader [[Tom Mboya]]. The program offered Western educational opportunities to outstanding Kenyan students.<ref name="Dobbs">{{cite news |author=Dobbs, Michael |date=30 March 2008 |title=Obama overstates Kennedys' role in helping his father| newspaper=The Washington Post |page=A1 |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/29/AR2008032902031.html |accessdate=24 February 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Winfrey, Oprah |date=15 February 2007 |title=Oprah talks to Bobby Kennedy Jr. |magazine=O, The Oprah Magazine |url=http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/oprahscut/omag_200702_ocut |accessdate=14 August 2009}}</ref><ref name="Jacobs 2008">{{cite news |author=Jacobs, Sally |date=21 September 2008 |title=A father's charm, absence |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=1A |url=http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/09/21/a_fathers_charm_absence |accessdate=14 August 2009 |quote=... Pake Zane, 66, who attended the University of Hawaii with Obama and had not publicly discussed their 1974 conversation until now. Zane was astonished at the transformation in his once vibrant friend, who had been divorced by his third wife a year before.}}</ref> Initial financial supporters of the program included [[Harry Belafonte]], [[Sidney Poitier]], [[Jackie Robinson]], and [[Elizabeth Mooney Kirk]], a literacy advocate who provided most of the financial support for Obama Sr.'s early years in the United States, according to the Tom Mboya archives at [[Stanford University]]. Funds provided the following year by [[John F. Kennedy]]'s family paid off old debts of the project and subsidized student stipends, thereby indirectly benefiting Obama Sr. and other members of the 1959 group of scholarship holders. During the 2008 presidential campaign, his son misspoke, saying that the Kennedys organized the initial 1959 student airlift, an error subsequently acknowledged by a campaign spokesman.<ref name="Dobbs"/> When Obama Sr. left for America, he left behind his baby son, Roy, and his young wife, Kezia, who was pregnant with their daughter, Auma.<ref name="Rice">{{cite news |author=Rice, Xan |date=6 June 2008 |title={{-'}}Barack's voice was just like his father's—I thought he had come back from the dead{{'-}} |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/06/barackobama.uselections2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London | accessdate=10 June 2008}}</ref>


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Barack Hussein Obama, Sr.
Born
Barack Hussein Obama

18 June 1936
Kanyadhiang Village, Rachuonyo District, Kenya Colony[1]
Died24 November 1982 (aged 46)
Nairobi, Kenya[2]
Resting placeNyang’oma Kogelo, Siaya, Kenya[3]
NationalityKenyan
Alma materUniversity of Hawaii
Harvard University
OccupationEconomist
Known forFather of U.S. President Barack Obama
Partner(s)Kezia Obama
Stanley Ann Dunham
Ruth Nidesand
Jael Otieno[4][5][6]
ChildrenAbongo Obama (b.1958)
Auma Obama (b.1960)
Barack Obama (b.1961)
Mark Ndesandjo (b.1965)[7]
David Ndesandjo (1968–1987)
Abo Obama (b.1968)
Bernard Obama (b.1970)
George Obama (b.1982)
Parent(s)Hussein Onyango Obama and Akumu Habiba[3]

Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (/ˈbærək huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/[9][10]; 18 June 1936[11][12] − 24 November 1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of U.S. President Barack Obama. He is a central subject in his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father.

Early life

File:Obama's Grandmother.jpg
Photograph of Barack Obama, Sr. with his mother, Akumu

Obama Sr. was born in Rachuonyo District[1] on the shores of Lake Victoria just outside Kendu Bay, Kenya Colony, at the time a colony of the British Empire. He was raised in the village of Nyang’oma Kogelo, Siaya District, Nyanza Province.[13] His family are members of the Luo ethnic group. His father was Hussein Onyango Obama (c. 1895-1979) and his mother was Habiba Akumu Nyanjango of Karabondi, Kenya, Onyango's second wife. However, Obama Sr. was raised by his stepmother, Sarah Ogwel of Kogelo, after Akumu left her family and separated from her husband in 1945.[3][14]

Before working as a cook for missionaries in Nairobi, Obama Sr.'s father Onyango had traveled widely, enlisting in the British colonial forces and visiting Europe, India, and Zanzibar, where he converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam and took the name Hussein. Hussein Onyango was jailed by the British for six months in 1949 due to his involvement in the Kenyan independence movement. According to Sarah Onyango Obama, Onyango was subjected to brutal torture which caused permanent physical disabilities.[15] Obama Sr. was born into this Muslim and Christian family,[16] but he became an atheist as a young man, before meeting Ann Dunham.[8]

Education and fatherhood

Kenya

While still living near Kendu Bay, Obama Sr. attended Gendia Primary School and transferred to Ng’iya Intermediate School once his family moved to Siaya District.[1] From 1950 to 1953, he studied at Maseno National School, an exclusive Christian boarding school in Maseno that is run by the Anglican Church of Kenya.[17] The head teacher, B.L. Bowers, described Obama Sr. in his records as "very keen, steady, trustworthy and friendly. Concentrates, reliable and out-going."[18] In 1954, after attending the Maseno National School, Obama Sr. was married for the first time at the age of eighteen, to Kezia Aoko[19] in a tribal ceremony. They had two children, Malik (a.k.a. Roy) and Auma, during the early years of their marriage. Later, while Obama Sr. was married to his third wife, Kezia had Abo and Bernard, thought to be with Obama Sr.,[20] but in Dreams from My Father, it is stated that the Obama family questions whether Abo and Bernard are his biological sons.[21]

In 1959, Obama Sr. received a scholarship in sexual harassment through a program organized by nationalist leader Tom Mboya. The program offered Western educational opportunities to outstanding Kenyan students.[22][23][24] Initial financial supporters of the program included Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Jackie Robinson, and Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, a literacy advocate who provided most of the financial support for Obama Sr.'s early years in the United States, according to the Tom Mboya archives at Stanford University. Funds provided the following year by John F. Kennedy's family paid off old debts of the project and subsidized student stipends, thereby indirectly benefiting Obama Sr. and other members of the 1959 group of scholarship holders. During the 2008 presidential campaign, his son misspoke, saying that the Kennedys organized the initial 1959 student airlift, an error subsequently acknowledged by a campaign spokesman.[22] When Obama Sr. left for America, he left behind his baby son, Roy, and his young wife, Kezia, who was pregnant with their daughter, Auma.[25]

University of Hawaii

In September 1959, Obama Sr. enrolled at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu as the university's first African foreign student.[26] He initially lived across the street from the university at the Charles H. Atherton branch of the YMCA at 1810 University Avenue;[26] public records from 1961 indicate he later had a residence two miles southeast of the university at 625 11th Avenue in the Kaimuki neighborhood.[27] In September 1960, Obama Sr. met Stanley Ann Dunham in a basic Russian language course at the University of Hawaii.[26] Dunham dropped out of the University of Hawaii after the fall 1960 semester after becoming pregnant, while Obama Sr. continued his education.[28] Obama Sr. married Dunham in Wailuku on the Hawaiian island of Maui on 2 February 1961.[28][29] He eventually told Dunham about his previous marriage in Kenya, but said he was divorced—which she found out years later was a lie.[26]

Obama Sr. and Dunham's son, Barack II, was born in Honolulu on 4 August 1961 at the old Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital—a predecessor of the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children.[26] His birth was announced in The Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, with his parents' address listed as 6085 Kalanianaole Highway in the Kuliouou neighborhood of Honolulu, seven miles east of the university—the rented home of Dunham's parents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham.[27] Soon after his birth, Dunham took her son to Seattle, Washington, where she took classes at the University of Washington from September 1961 to June 1962.[30] Obama Sr. continued his education at the University of Hawaii and in 1961–1962 lived one mile east of the university in the St. Louis Heights neighborhood.[31][32] He graduated from the University of Hawaii after three years with a B.A. in economics[33] and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa[34] and left Hawaii in June 1962.[2][26]

Harvard University

In September 1962, after a tour of mainland U.S. universities, Obama Sr. traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he began a graduate fellowship in economics at Harvard University and rented an apartment in a rooming house near Central Square in Cambridge.[24][35] Meanwhile, Dunham and her son returned to Honolulu in the latter half of 1962, and she resumed her undergraduate education in January 1963 with the spring semester at the University of Hawaii.[30] In January 1964, Dunham filed for divorce in Honolulu; the divorce was not contested by Obama Sr.[28][36] In 1965, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro,[37] a Javanese[38] surveyor whom she had met at the East-West Center.[39] Obama, Sr. was forced to leave his Ph.D. program at Harvard University in May 1964 (and received an A.M. in economics from Harvard in 1965).[2][24][29][40][41] In June 1964, Obama Sr. met and began dating a 27-year-old Jewish American elementary school teacher named Ruth Beatrice Baker, the daughter of prosperous Lithuanian immigrants to the United States.[42][43][44]

Return to Kenya

Obama Sr. returned to his native Kenya in August 1964.[45] Ruth followed Obama Sr. back to Kenya, where she married him on December 24, 1964,[46] and had two sons with him, Mark Okoth Obama in 1965 and David Opiyo Obama in 1968.[47] Ruth and Obama Sr. separated in 1971,[48][49] and divorced in 1973.[2][24] Ruth subsequently married a Tanzanian named Ndesandjo and took his surname, as did her sons Mark and David. Mark said in 2009 that Obama Sr. had been abusive to him, to his late brother, David, and to his mother.[20][43][44]

Obama Sr. was hired by an oil company and then served as an economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Transport and later became a senior economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Finance.[50] In 1959, a monograph written by him had been published by the Kenyan Department of Education, entitled Otieno jarieko. Kitabu mar ariyo. 2: Yore mabeyo mag puro puothe. (English: Otieno, the wise man. Book 2: Wise ways of farming.)[51][52] That same year, Obama Sr. published a paper entitled "Problems Facing Our Socialism" in the East Africa Journal, harshly criticising the blueprint for national planning, "African Socialism and Its Applicability to Planning in Kenya", which had been produced by Tom Mboya's Ministry of Economic Planning and Development. The article was signed "Barak H. Obama."[53] In December 1971, Obama Sr., who was recuperating after an almost year-long hospitalization following an automobile accident,[54] made a month-long trip to Hawaii, during which he visited with his ex-wife and son. The visit was the last time 10-year-old Barack II would see his father.[55] On that trip Obama Sr. took his son to his first jazz concert, a performance by pianist Dave Brubeck.[56]

As his son described it in his memoir, conflict with President Jomo Kenyatta destroyed Obama Sr.'s career.[57] The decline began after Tom Mboya's assassination in 1969. Obama Sr. was fired from his job by Kenyatta, was blacklisted in Kenya, and began to drink. He had a serious car accident, spent almost a year in the hospital, and by the time he visited his son in Hawaii in late 1971, he already had a bad leg.[58] Obama Sr.'s life fell into drinking and poverty, from which he never recovered. His friend, journalist Philip Ochieng, has described Obama Sr.'s difficult personality and drinking problems in the Kenya newspaper the Daily Nation.[22] Obama Sr. later lost both legs in another automobile collision and subsequently lost his job. He fathered another son named George. Six months after his son's birth, Obama Sr. died in a third car crash in Nairobi in 1982.[22] He was interred in his native village of Nyang’oma Kogelo, Siaya District. His funeral was attended by ministers Robert Ouko, Oloo Aringo and other prominent political figures.[1]

Publications

  • Obama, Barack H. (1959). Otieno jarieko (Otieno, the wise man: a series of readers to follow the Luo adult literacy primer) (in Luo). Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, Eagle Press. OCLC 694566336.
  • Obama, Barak H. (July 1965). "Problems facing our socialism: another critique of Sessional Paper No. 10" (PDF). East Africa Journal. 2 (4). Nairobi: 26–33. ISSN 0012-8309. Retrieved 6 May 2011.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Oywa, John; Olwenya, George (14 November 2008). "Obama's dad and his many loves". The Standard. Nairobi. Retrieved 22 November 2008.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) [dead link]
  2. ^ a b c d Sanders, Edmund (17 July 2008). "So alike and yet so different". Los Angeles Times. p. A1. Retrieved 24 February 2009. Obama's worsening drinking binges strained his career and marriage. "He would pass out on the doorstep," said Leo Odera Omolo, a former drinking buddy and friend of the family. "Ruth would complain he's getting out of hand." The couple divorced in the early 1970s.
  3. ^ a b c Powell, Kimberly (2008). "Ancestry of Barack Obama". New York: About.com. Retrieved 4 March 2008.
  4. ^ Fornek, Scott; Good, Greg (9 September 2007). "The Obama family tree" (PDF). Chicago Sun-Times. pp. 2B–3B. Retrieved 22 March 2008.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Crilly, Rob (22 August 2008). "Life is good in my Nairobi slum, says Barack Obama's younger brother". The Times. London. p. 37. Retrieved 23 August 2008.
  6. ^ Pflanz, Mike (21 August 2008). "Barack Obama is my inspiration, says lost brother". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 23 August 2008.
  7. ^ Sheridan, Michael (27 July 2008). "Barack Obama's brother pushes Chinese imports on U.S." The Times. London. p. 27. Retrieved 28 July 2008.
  8. ^ a b Obama, Barack (16 October 2006). "My spiritual journey". Time. Retrieved 5 March 2008. My father was almost entirely absent from my childhood, having been divorced from my mother when I was 2 years old; in any event, although my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist, thinking religion to be so much superstition.
  9. ^ Sally H. Jacobs. The Other Barack. PublicAffairs, 2011. Excerpt at NPR.org Retrieved 16 September 2011. "The Old Man had also been called Barack, but his was a working man's name, with the emphasis on the first syllable."
  10. ^ Interview of Sally H. Jacobs by John Batchelor. The John Batchelor Show. 16 July 2011 (9pm 19:50). Retrieved 16 September 2011.
  11. ^ Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. Immigration File
  12. ^ Birth certificate conflicts with father's real birthday?
  13. ^ Ombour, Joe (4 November 2008). "Obama's father and the origin of Muslim name". The Standard. Nairobi. Retrieved 13 November 2008. [dead link]
  14. ^ Reitwiesner, William Addams (2008). "Ancestry of Barack Obama". Washington, D.C.: wargs.com (William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services). Retrieved 21 November 2008.
  15. ^ Macintyre, Ben; Orengoh, Paul (3 December 2008). "Beatings and abuse made Barack Obama's grandfather loathe the British". The Times. London. p. 6. Retrieved 7 March 2009.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ Houreld, Katharine (5 March 2008). "Obama's grandma slams 'untruths'". USA Today. Associated Press. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
    "Correction: Obama's Kenyan family". USA Today. Associated Press. 10 March 2008. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
  17. ^ Obama (1995, 2004), p. 418.
  18. ^ Oywa, John (4 November 2008). "Tracing Obama Snr's steps as a student at Maseno School". The Standard. Nairobi. Retrieved 8 November 2008. [dead link]
  19. ^ "Fascinating story of Obama family". The Standard. Nairobi. Retrieved 11 July 2009.[dead link]
  20. ^ a b Foreman, William (4 November 2009). "Obama's half brother: our father was abusive; new novel 'Nairobi to Shenzhen' is patterned in part on Barack Obama, Sr". msnbc.com. Associated Press. Retrieved 5 November 2009.
  21. ^ Obama (1995, 2004), p.335.
  22. ^ a b c d Dobbs, Michael (30 March 2008). "Obama overstates Kennedys' role in helping his father". The Washington Post. p. A1. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
  23. ^ Winfrey, Oprah (15 February 2007). "Oprah talks to Bobby Kennedy Jr". O, The Oprah Magazine. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
  24. ^ a b c d Jacobs, Sally (21 September 2008). "A father's charm, absence". The Boston Globe. p. 1A. Retrieved 14 August 2009. ... Pake Zane, 66, who attended the University of Hawaii with Obama and had not publicly discussed their 1974 conversation until now. Zane was astonished at the transformation in his once vibrant friend, who had been divorced by his third wife a year before.
  25. ^ Rice, Xan (6 June 2008). "'Barack's voice was just like his father's—I thought he had come back from the dead'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 10 June 2008.
  26. ^ a b c d e f Maraniss, David (24 August 2008). "Though Obama had to leave to find himself, it is Hawaii that made his rise possible". The Washington Post. p. A22. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
  27. ^ a b Hoover, Will (9 November 2008). "Obama's Hawaii boyhood homes drawing gawkers". The Honolulu Advertiser. p. A1. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
  28. ^ a b c Ripley, Amanda (9 April 2008). "The story of Barack Obama's mother". Time. Retrieved 10 April 2008. (online)
    Ripley, Amanda (21 April 2008). "A mother's story". Time. 171 (16): 36–40, 42. ("Raising Obama" cover story) (print)
  29. ^ a b Salsberg, Bob (29 April 2011). "Files suggest elder Obama forced to leave Harvard". The Arizona Republic. Associated Press. Retrieved 1 May 2011. President Barack Obama's father was forced to leave Harvard University before completing his Ph.D. in economics because the school was concerned about his personal life and finances, according to newly public immigration records.
  30. ^ a b Dougherty, Phil (10 February 2009). "Barack Obama moves to Seattle in August or early September 1961". Seattle: HistoryLink.org. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
  31. ^ Griffin, John (22 June 1962). "First UH African graduate gives view on E-W Center". The Honolulu Advertiser. An off-campus resident himself (St. Louis Heights) Obama thinks it's a mistake to have the East-West students in dormitories.
  32. ^ Brannon, Johnny (10 February 2007). "Hawai'i's imperfect melting pot a big influence on young Obama". The Honolulu Advertiser. p. 1A. Retrieved 21 January 2011. The elder Obama lived first at the Atherton YMCA on University Avenue and later moved to St. Louis Heights.
  33. ^ "President Obama's connection to UH Economics". Honolulu: Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa. 26 February 2009. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
  34. ^ "U.S. Presidents share a Phi Beta Kappa connection". Focus News. Washington, D.C.: Phi Beta Kappa Society. 21 January 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2009.
  35. ^ "Kenya student wins fellowship". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 20 June 1962. p. 7. A 1962 graduate, he leaves next week for a tour of Mainland universities before entering Harvard in the fall.
  36. ^ Merida, Kevin (14 December 2007). "The ghost of a father". The Washington Post. p. A12. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
  37. ^ Nakaso, Dan (12 September 2008). "Obama's mother's work focus of UH seminar". The Honolulu Advertiser. p. 1A. Retrieved 5 February 2011. At UH, she fell in love with a Javanese candidate for a master's degree in geography named Soetoro Martodihardjo, who went by the Javanese nickname 'Lolo' Soetoro. They married in 1965 ...
  38. ^ Dewey, Alice; White, Geoffrey (November 2008). "Ann Dunham: a personal reflection". Anthropology News. 49 (8): 20. doi:10.1111/an.2008.49.8.20.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) reprinted by:
    Dewey, Alice; White, Geoffrey (9 March 2009). "Ann Dunham: a personal reflection". Honolulu: University of Hawaii Department of Anthropology. Retrieved 21 January 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  39. ^ Solomon, Deborah (20 January 2008). "Questions for Maya Soetoro-Ng: All in the family". The New York Times Magazine. p. 17. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
  40. ^ Jacobs (2011), p. 159.
  41. ^ "Harvard alumni directory, vol. 1" (17th ed.). Boston: Harvard Alumni Association. 1986: 904. ISSN 0895-1683. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  42. ^ Jacobs (2011), pp. 160–161.
  43. ^ a b Jacobs, Andrew (4 November 2009). "An Obama relative living in China tells of his own journey of self-discovery". The New York Times. p. A10. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
  44. ^ a b Demick, Barbara (5 November 2009). "Obama's half brother describes abuse". Los Angeles Times. p. A32. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
  45. ^ Jacobs (2011), p. 165.
  46. ^ Jacobs (2011), p. 177.
  47. ^ Ochieng, Philip (1 November 2004). "From home squared to the US Senate: how Barack Obama was lost and found". The EastAfrican. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 4 March 2008.
  48. ^ Obama (1995, 2004), p. 126: [Ann Dunham]: "Later, when he came to visit us in Hawaii that time, he wanted us to come live with him. But I was still married to Lolo then, and his third wife had just left him, and I just didn't think ..."
  49. ^ Obama (1995, 2004), p. 216: [Auma Obama]: "She left when I was twelve or thirteen, after the Old Man had had a serious car accident. He had been drinking, I think, and the Old Man was in the hospital, almost a year, and Roy and I lived on our own. When the Old Man finally got out of the hospital, that's when he went to visit you and your mum in Hawaii."
  50. ^ Fornek, Scott (9 September 2007). "Barack Obama Sr.: 'Wrestling with ... a ghost'". Chicago Sun Times. p. 4B. Retrieved 4 March 2008.
  51. ^ Bade, David W. (2000). "Books in African languages in the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University: a catalog" (PDF). Evanston, Ill.: Program of African Studies, Northwestern University. p. 304 (#3729). Retrieved 18 March 2009.
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