Claude henri grignon biography of barack obama

Barack Obama’s Early Life

Obama’s father, also named Barack Hussein Obama, grew up in a small village in Nyanza Province, Kenya, as a member of the Luo ethnicity. He won a scholarship to study economics at the University of Hawaii, where he met and married Ann Dunham, a white woman from Wichita, Kansas, whose father had worked on oil rigs during the Great Depression and fought with the U.S. Army in World War II before moving his family to Hawaii in 1959. Barack and Ann’s son, Barack Hussein Obama Jr., was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961.

Obama’s parents later separated, and Barack Sr. went back to Kenya. He would see his son only once more before dying in a car accident in 1982. Ann remarried in 1965. She and her new husband, an Indonesian man named Lolo Soetoro, moved with her young son to Jakarta

Presidency of Barack Obama - Wikipedia

Following their marriage, and the arrival of two daughters, Barack Obama was elected as Illinois Senator and then as the 44th President of the United States of America.

Barack Obama Biography

Winner of the Prix Athanase-David, member of the Royal Society of Canada and an Officer of the Order of Canada, Grignon is known primarily for his novel Un homme et son péché (), whose hero, the miserly Séraphin Poudrier, became the central figure in the novel’s adaptations for radio, television and film.