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Let's know a little more about Barack Obama and his school years... Barack Obama became the first African-American President of the USA on 20 January 2009. He was one of the most powerful people in the world. But his early life was quite difficult. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii. His mother was from Kansas in the United States. His father was from Kenya. When Obama was just two years old, his father returned to Kenya. Obama only ever saw his father again once, when Barack was ten years old. Barack Obama became the first African-American President of the USA on 20 January 2009 Obama's mother remarried and in 1967 the family moved to Indonesia. Obama lived in Indonesia for four years. Then his mother wanted him to go to school in the USA, so he went to live with his grandparents in Hawaii. However, although he enjoyed school school, he had his first experience of racism there. When he was just ten years old, a boy asked him if his father ate people! For many pe...