Bears den biography of barack

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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&