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Barack Hussein Obama II - our 44th President of the United States. He is not only the first President to be born in Hawaii, but the African American to become President. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. His mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas. The reason Obama grew up in Hawaii was because his father won a scholarship which enabled him to pursue his dreams in Honolulu. His mother divorced and later remarried to Lolo Soetoro, which caused the whole family to move to Jakarta. After four years, he later returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents to continue his education at age 10. It was there where he first gained awareness of racism because he was one of three black students at his school.