Parents of Barack Obama

Who were the parents of Barack Obama? This question came to us by email earlier in the week so we thought it would make for a nice article. There has been a showed of mystery over the birth certificate that took forever to surface so it makes sense to really explore exactly who were parents of Barack Obama.

There is no doubt that the parents of Barack Obama were intelligent people. His father grew up in Nyang’oma Kogelo and is from the Luo tribe. Tom Mboya (a nationalist leader of Kenya) created a program which offered western educational opportunities to exceptional students. Barack Hussein Obama (President Obama’s Father) was awarded this opportunity and thus was able to reenroll at the University of Hawaii. Feb. 21^st 1961 he wed Ann Dunham in Maui, Hawaii and on Aug. 4^th, 1961 Barack Obama was born.

Ann Dunham Soetoro, a Kansas native is Barack Obama’s mother. She was an anthropologist that specialized in rural development. The majority of her adult life was spent in Hawaii and it was here that she met and wed Barack Hussein Obama. It was in an interview that Obama referred to his mother as “the dominant figure” in his formative or beginning years.

So there we have it, the parents of Barack Obama and a brief history about them. These are the people which shared his life. These are the people who instilled the values in him early on . . . they are the parents of Barack Obama.