| Obama sr. the father of President Obama was born in 1932 in Kendu Bay Kenya. From 1950 to 1953, he studied at Maseno National School, a Christian boarding school that is run by the Anglican Church of Kenya . He received a scholarship in economics .The program offered Western educational opportunities to outstanding Kenyan students. At the age of 23, he enrolled at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where he met the president mother .He graduated from the University of Hawaii in June 1962, and traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to begin graduate study at Harvard University . He received a master's degree (AM) in economics from Harvard in 1965. On his return to Kenya, Obama Sr. was hired by an oil company and then served as an economist in the Ministry of Transport, and later became senior economist in the Ministry of Finance. He died in 1982 . |  President Barack Obama then a young boy with his father. |
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