Marais na Viongozi Duniani: Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th and current president of the United States of America. He is also the first African American to hold the office. Obama was born on 4th August 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He graduated from Columbia university and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law school from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Obama has a half sister, with whom he was raised Maya Soetoro-Ng, the daughter of his mother and her Indonesian second husband, and seven half-siblings from his Kenyan father's family - six of them living.

In June 1989, Obama met Michelle Robinson when he was employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin. The couple's first daughter Malia Ann was born on July 4, 1998, followed by a second daughter, Natasha (Sasha) on June 10, 2001. The Obama's daughters attended the private university of Chicago Laboratory Schools. When they moved to Washington D.C, in January 2009, the girls started at the private Sidwell Friends school.

President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama

President Barack Obama and his daughters Natasha (Sasha) and Malia.

President Barack Obama and his family

The Obamas

President Barack Obama and his family.

President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia and Natasha (Sasha) Obama.

The Obamas

President Barack Obama and his half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng (The daughter of his mother)

President Obama's half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng with her husband Konrad Ng and their daughter.

Obama family gathering in Honolulu during Christmas December 2006: Barack Obama, wife Michelle, daughters Malia and Natasha (Sasha), his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng and her husband Konrad Ng and their daughter, on far right is Madelyn Dunham, Barack Obama's grandmother.

President Obama and his wife Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama on their wedding day, October, 1992, in Chicago.

President Obama and her daughter Sasha.

President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama and their daughter Sasha Obama.

Barack Obama is sworn in as the president of the United States at the U.S. Capitol in Washington January 20, 2009.

From Left Michelle Obama's mother Marian Robinson, Malia Obama, President Obama's half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, Maya Soetoro husband Konrad Ng and Sasha Obama at inauguration in January 20, 2009.

President Barack Obama and first Lady Michelle Obama walk from the White House with their daughters Sasha Obama, second from left, and Malia Obama, right, on their way through Lafayette Park to St. John's Episcopal Church for Easter services, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Washington.