It is believed to be a voice for change; it is said to be the American dream, and that is what inspired the American and the whole world to focus on him. He is Senator Barack Obama, the 44th president of United states of America.
Paraphrasing the article Early life and career of Barack Obama, he was born in 1961 and raised at Honolulu, Hawaii in United states, to Ann Dunham an American from Kansas and Barack Obama, Sr., a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo in Kenya. They divorced in 1964.
He went in Indonesia to live with his stepfather whereby from ages Six to Ten, Obama like other children schooled in Jakarta before he came back to Honolulu to stay with his grandparents.
Obama’s adulthood missed parents care as he was raised by his grandparents Madelyn and Stanley Dunham. Those kinds of life lead him as a teenager to fall on peer groups using marijuana and cocaine as a way of seeking relief from hard life.
He took his high school studies at Punahou as one of the few black students at that school. Among the oppressive memories at that school is when he was asked whether his father ate people! Despite challenges as a black student, he graduated from high school in 1979.
Obama’s stepsister Soetoro-Ng describes him as an activist who dealt with knowing his identity since his adulthood. That made him to spend some of his times reading various books.
Being raised in Honolulu, Obama lived with multiple culture that enhanced him to experience unique life style like other black American people. The question is does that life style lead him to practice good public relations in his presidency?
From Punahou school, he moved Hawaii to Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago where he acquired more education and job careers as a way of getting rid of being dependant to his grandparents.
Nowadays, Barack Obama is among the prominent figures in the world.
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