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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44thpresident of the United States of America from 2009 to 2017. Born in Hawaii, the son of a Kenyan father and a mother from Kansas, he won the 2008 presidential election and was re-elected president in November 2012. A member of the U.S. Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Before becoming president, he represented the 13th district for three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004 and served as United States senator from Illinois between January 4, 2005 and November 16, 2008. While president, he was the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
- See also his books:
- Dreams from My Father (1995)
- The Audacity of Hope (2006)
- A Promised Land (2020)
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While the beaches of Honolulu were more than just five thousand miles away from the back roads of the Mississippi Delta or the shotgun shacks of the Carolinas, the young Barack Obama was not untouched by the dramatic changes wrought by the black freedom struggles, both in America and elsewhere. Indeed, his very existence was to some degree a consequence of those struggles. His father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., grew up in the small village of Nyangoma-Kogelo in western Kenya, and as a child, herded goats with his father, Hussein Onyango Obama, a domestic servant for British colonial officials. As Barack Obama Jr. would later put it, his grandfather Hussein "had larger dreams for his son," who, first, won a scholarship to study in the capital, Nairobi, and then was selected to participate in a program to educate promising young African students in the United States. The program's founder, the Kenyan nationalist politician and labor leader, Tom Mboya wanted to prepare an African-born elite for government service after the end of British colonial rule, and he looked to America, rather than Britain to do so. To that end, Mboya secured scholarship funds from such civil rig