kpuciine Barack Obama comes from hawaii, from a poor family, with a Kenyan father ans an américain mother. His mother raised him up alone to his 10 years old in indonesia. Then he left for the USA to his grandparents. After graduation, he went to columbia university for two years and went out with a political science diploma. He worked as a consultant and became a community organizer in a black ghetto for three years. In 1987, he went back to studies in harvard to finally become a teacher at the university of chicago. In 1996, he was elected at Illinois Senate, then at the US Senate. In 2008, he became the first black president of the USa. He was poor and finishes president with a nobel peace prize : YES WE CAN