Obama Family

When the children visited the executive mansion in 2005 they "were bored until President Bush's dog Barney showed up and they romped with him on the South Lawn," according to The Associated Press. Obama has often described his Great Uncle Charlie's role in liberating Buchenwald concentration camp.

A Chinese Canadian, assistant professor at the University of Hawaii's Academy of Creative Media. His parents,Howard & Joan are from Sabah, Malaysia and he was born and raised in Burlington, Ontario with his younger brother Perry. Married Maya Soetoro-Ng at the end of 2003 in Hawaii.
Lolo Soetoro
Lolo Soetoro (c. 1946) when Indonesia won independence from the Dutch, Soetoro's father and eldest brother were killed, after which the Dutch army burned down the family's home.

Soetoro fled with his mother into the countryside to survive.
He met Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, when they were both students at the University of Hawaii. Around 1966, Soetoro and Dunham married and Soetoro returned to Indonesia when it called home its citizens who were studying abroad. About a year later, Dunham and her six-year-old son Barack Obama followed Soetoro back to Indonesia, where the family took up residence in Menteng Dalam, Jakarta. In 1970, Soetoro and Dunham had a daughter, Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng (born Maya Soetoro).
After returning to Indonesia, Soetoro first worked for the army as a geologist and then took a job as a government relations consultant with Mobil Oil. Obama describes Soetoro as well-mannered, even-tempered, and easy with people.He writes that Soetoro was physically short, good looking, and brown with black hair. He describes the struggles he perceived Soetoro had to deal with after he returned to Indonesia from Hawaii.
During their years together in Indonesia, Dunham became increasingly interested in the country's culture, while Soetoro became more Western in his outlook. Ann Dunham left Soetoro in 1972, returning to Hawaii and reuniting with her son, who had returned from Indonesia in 1971 to attend school.

Soetoro and Dunham saw each other periodically in the 1970s but did not live together again. They were divorced in 1980.
Soetoro was nominally Muslim, the religion of a majority of Indonesians. The Soetoro–Dunham household in Indonesia was not religious.
According to his nephew, Lolo "loved drinking, was a smart and warm person, the naughtiest one in the family." Soetoro died of a liver ailment in 1987 at age 51.
Paternal relatives
Besides United States Senator Barack Obama, Barack Obama Sr.

After their divorce, Ruth married a Tanzanian and her sons both used their stepfather's surname. 1960) As of July 2008, development worker in Kenya. She studied German at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 1987, and graduated with a PhD based on a dissertation about the conception of labor in Germany and its literary reflections. Auma Obama is resident in London, where she married in 1996 and has a daughter named Akinyi.
Bernard Obama
(born 1970) Auto parts supplier in Kenya.
Kezia Obama
Kezia Obama(born c.1930s) is Barack Obama Sr.'s first wife whom he married in Kenya before studying abroad in the United States. She currently lives in Bracknell, UK
Malik Obama
(also known as Abongo (Roy) Obama, born c.

to visit him. Malik and his brother Barack were best men at each other's weddings. Barack Obama brought his wife Michelle to Kenya three years later, and they met with Malik again while Barack was introducing Michelle to many other new relatives.
Although much of the Obama family had dispersed throughout Kenya and overseas most, including Malik Obama, still considered their rural village on the shores of Lake Victoria to be their true home, and felt that those who left the village had become culturally "lost". A frequent visitor to the United States, and consultant in Washington, D.C. for several months per year, he nevertheless settled in the Obamas' ancestral home, Nyang’oma Kogelo, a village of several hundred people that he preferred to the city for its slow pace. He ran a small electronics shop a half hour drive outside of town. All of his father's other surviving children were living in the United States or England.
During his brother's Presidential campaign, Malik Obama was a spokesman for the extended Obama family in Kenya, dealing with safety and privacy concerns arising from increased attention from the press.
Hussein Onyango Obama
Hussein Onyango Obama(1895–1979) is Barack Obama's paternal grandfather who worked as a Mission cook.

Barack's middle name is named after his grandfather.
Sarah Obama
Sarah Ogwel, (also known, through the addition of her late husband's name, as Sarah Onyango Obama, born 1922) is the paternal step-grandmother of US Senator Barack Obama, the 2008 Democratic presidential candidate. Although not a blood relation, Barack Obama nevertheless calls her "Granny Sarah". She was just 16 when she married Obama's grandfather, an older man who was her father's friend.
Despite living in a small rural village in Kenya, Sarah Obama is well aware of Senator Obama's fame in the United States, and has photographs of his successes on her walls. She recently publicly complained about false reports about Senator Obama's religion.1940s) is Barack Obama Sr's third wife and a private Kindergarten director in Kenya. Ruth's two sons with Barack Obama, Sr., are Mark and David; her additional son named Joseph Ndesandjo (born c. David and Mark both went by Ndesandjo, their step-father's surname.
Mark Ndesandjo
The only uncontested heir of Barack Obama, Sr., Mark resided since 2002 in Shenzhen, China, where he runs an Internet company called WorldNexus that advises Chinese corporations how best to reach international customers.
George Obama
George Hussein Onyango Obama (born c.

George was six months old when his father died in an automoble accident, after which George was raised in Nairobi by his mother, Jael, and a step-father, who is French. George lived in South Korea 2001–2003 while his mother resided there for business reasons. According to the Italian edition of Vanity Fair magazine, George Obama resides in Huruma Flats in Nairobi, Kenya and is studying to become a mechanic.

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