Family of barack obama biography book

Barack Obama CHAPTER 1 BARACK OBAMA JR.
ON AUGUST 4, , A baby boy was born at kapi?‘olani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. He weighed eight pounds, two ounces.

Family of barack obama biography book pdf

His parents, Ann and Barack, named him after his father, Barack Hussein Obama, but they called their child “Barry.”

Barack Obama Sr. was a foreign exchange student from Kenya, a country in east-central Africa. He was twenty-five years old, studying on a scholarship at the University of Hawaii.

He was the very first African student at the school.

Barack was tall and charming, with a voice “like black velvet,” as his mother-in-law Madelyn Dunham described it, “with a British accent.” He had come from a poor family, herding goats as a boy.

His father, of the Luo tribe, had been a domestic servant for the British colonials. Now Kenya was on the brink of gaining independence from Britain.

Barack was determined to accomplish great things, both for himself and for his country.

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