Obama relayed many times, particularly in his bestselling books, that he has very little recollection of his father because his parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced.
In a strange twist of irony Barack Obama, Sr. went on to Harvard to pursue Ph.D. studies, and then returned to Kenya in 1965, where he would live out the rest of his days. His son, unbeknownst to Barack Sr. at the time, would graduate from the same school more than 20 years later as Barack II would procure his law degree from Harvard Law School in the early 1990s.
In 1966, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, another East–West Center student from Indonesia. A year later, the family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where Obama’s half-sister Maya Soetoro Ng was born. 
It was in the early 80s when Barack Obama II learned of his father’s death in Kenya. “At the time of his death, my father remained a myth to me,” Obama would write, “both more and less than a man.”
