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What Is Barack Obama Early Life

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Early Life

Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama Sr. Was brought up to raise goats in Africa and, earned a scholarship that let him leave Kenya and live out his dream of going to school in Hawaii. While he was a student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Obama Sr. met the women that would become Barack Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, and they got married on February 2, 1961. Barack was born a few short months after. His mother, Ann Dunham, was born on an Army base in Kansas,during World War II. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Dunham's father, Stanley, enlisted in the Army. Her mother, Madelyn, began to work on an assembly line that manufactured

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