86 Facts About Malia Obama

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Family of Barack Malia Obama, the 44th president of the United States, is a prominent American family active in politics.

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Malia Obama's is Barack Obama's wife, and was the first African-American first lady.

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Malia Obama's subsequently worked as the associate dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago and the vice president for Community and External Affairs of the University of Chicago Medical Center.

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Malia Obama's returned to speak at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, and again during the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, where she delivered a speech in support of the Democratic presidential nominee, and fellow first lady, Hillary Clinton.

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Malia Obama later said they regretted allowing the children to be included.

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The selection was slow because Malia Obama is allergic to animal dander; the president subsequently said that the choice had been narrowed down to either a labradoodle or a Portuguese Water Dog, and that they hoped to find a shelter animal.

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Malia Obama's spent the summer of 2016 working as an intern in the U S Embassy in Madrid, Spain.

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In February 2017, Malia Obama started an internship for Harvey Weinstein at The Weinstein Company film studio in New York City.

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Sasha has since transferred to the University of Southern California, and Malia Obama graduated from Harvard in 2021 and is working as a writer on Donald Glover's new Amazon series Hive.

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10.

Marian Robinson, Michelle Malia Obama's mother, resided in the White House during the Malia Obama presidency.

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11.

Barack Malia Obama was raised by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and maternal grandparents Madelyn and Stanley Dunham.

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Malia Obama often referred to his family during his candidacy and two terms as president.

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13.

The Bunches later moved to Tennessee; in 1834 a daughter moved to Kansas, where Malia Obama's mother was born four generations later.

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14.

Malia Obama's became an anthropologist, specializing in economic anthropology and rural development.

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Malia Obama's earned her PhD degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and worked with the United States Agency for International Development, the Ford Foundation, and Women's World Banking, to promote the use of microcredit in order to combat global poverty.

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16.

Malia Obama has said that his mother was the dominant figure of his formative years.

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17.

Malia Obama served as a sergeant in the U S Army during World War II, enlisting just after the attacks on Pearl Harbor.

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18.

Malia Obama died in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is buried at the Punchbowl National Cemetery.

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19.

Malia Obama has often described Payne's role in liberating the Ohrdruf forced labor camp.

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20.

Malia Obama was the assistant director of the University of Chicago's Library.

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21.

Malia Obama landed at Normandy's Omaha Easy Red Beach on D-Day plus four, and moved with troops in the fighting through France, Italy and Germany.

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22.

Eleanor Dunham, Malia Obama's great-aunt, was the younger sister of Stanley Armour Dunham and Ralph Dunham.

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Malia Obama's was the youngest daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham Sr.

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24.

Malia Obama's retired from civil service as an executive secretary.

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25.

Margaret Arlene Payne, Malia Obama's great-aunt, was the younger sister of Madelyn Dunham and Charles Payne.

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26.

Malia Obama's was a professor of nutrition who taught at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

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27.

Malia Obama's family said that his maternal great-grandmother, Leona McCurry, was part Native American.

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28.

Malia Obama's reportedly held that as a "source of considerable shame" and "blanched whenever someone mentioned the subject and hoped to carry the secret to her grave".

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29.

Malia Obama's has a half-brother and half-sister, Yusuf and Aya Soetoro, from her father's second marriage.

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30.

Malia Obama's is married to Canadian-American Konrad Ng, with whom she has two daughters, Suhaila and Savita.

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Malia Obama is of Overseas Chinese descent, and his parents are from Kudat and Sandakan, two small towns in Sabah, Malaysia.

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32.

Malia Obama married Maya Soetoro-Ng at the end of 2003 in Hawaii.

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33.

Malia Obama was an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii's Academy of Creative Media.

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34.

Malia Obama studied philosophy at McGill University and cultural studies at the University of Victoria before getting his PhD degree from University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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35.

Malia Obama served as a private in Company A, 145th Ohio Infantry during the American Civil War.

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36.

Jonathan Singletary Dunham, born in 1640 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was one of Malia Obama's maternal eighth great-grandfathers and is his earliest ancestor known to be born in North America.

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37.

The Malia Obama family is concentrated in the western Kenyan province of Nyanza.

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38.

Paternal grandfather to Barack Malia Obama, he was born Onyango Malia Obama.

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39.

Barack Malia Obama relates finding in 1988 a British document, based on a 1928 ordinance, recording his grandfather as 35 years old.

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40.

Malia Obama was tried in a magistrates' court either on charges of sedition or being a member of a banned organization.

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41.

Malia Obama had difficulty walking, and his head was full of lice.

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42.

Malia Obama's said that he passed on the name of Hussein to his children, but not the religion.

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43.

Malia Obama's was Barack Obama's paternal grandmother, and the second wife of Hussein Onyango Obama.

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Malia Obama's had three children with Onyango: daughters Sarah and Auma, and son Barack .

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45.

Malia Obama's subsequently married again and moved to Tanganyika, now Tanzania.

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46.

Malia Obama served in the ministries of transportation and finance.

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47.

Aunt of U S President Obama and younger sister of his father, born to Hussein Onyango and second wife Habiba Akumu Obama.

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48.

Malia Obama's was known for short as Sarah Obama; she was sometimes referred to as Sarah Ogwel, Sarah Hussein Obama, or Sarah Anyango Obama.

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49.

Malia Obama's lived in Nyang'oma Kogelo village, 30 miles west of western Kenya's main town, Kisumu, on the edge of Lake Victoria.

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50.

In November 2014, Sarah Malia Obama received an award from the United Nations for the work of an education foundation that she headed, as a part of Women's Entrepreneurship Day.

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51.

Malia Obama's lived in Bracknell, Berkshire, England, until her death in 2021.

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52.

The American Malia Obama brought his wife Michelle to Kenya three years later, and they met with Malik again while meeting many other relatives for the first time.

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53.

Malia Obama dealt with safety and privacy concerns arising from the increased attention from the press.

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54.

Malia Obama attended the third presidential debate as one of Trump's guests.

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55.

Malia Obama's studied German at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 1987.

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56.

In 2011, Auma Malia Obama was interviewed for Turk Pipkin's documentary Building Hope and was the subject of a German documentary film The Education of Auma Malia Obama.

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57.

In 2017 Auma Malia Obama was honoured with the fourth International TUV Rheinland Global Compact Award in Cologne.

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58.

Malia Obama's was a suburban elementary school teacher when she met and began dating Barack Sr.

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59.

Malia Obama's later became a private kindergarten director in Kenya.

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60.

Malia Obama is an accomplished pianist and has performed in concert.

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61.

Malia Obama published a memoir in 2013, entitled, Cultures: My Odyssey of Self-Discovery.

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62.

Malia Obama died in a motorcycle accident several years after his father's death in a car accident.

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63.

Malia Obama's mother took him to South Korea for two years while she was working there.

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64.

Malia Obama received little attention until featured in an article in the Italian-language edition of Vanity Fair in August 2008 during the US presidential campaign.

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The article quoted George Malia Obama as saying that he lived "on less than a dollar a month" and said that he "does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation" out of shame at his own poverty.

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Malia Obama told The Telegraph that he was inspired by his half-brother.

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67.

Malia Obama moved to the United States in October 1963 when he was 17 years old as part of Kenya president Tom Mboya's Airlift Africa project, to send promising Kenyan students to the US for education, particularly undergraduate and graduate school.

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Malia Obama later dropped out of school and changed his name to O Onyango Obama.

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69.

Malia Obama has operated a liquor store in Framingham, where he resided as of March 2011.

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70.

Barack Malia Obama lived with Onyango in the 1980s while a student at Harvard Law School in Cambridge.

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71.

The Boston Herald reported in August 2011 that Malia Obama had had a valid Social Security card "for at least 19 years".

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Malia Obama's entered the US in 2000 on a temporary visa with her son who was going to school; she applied in 2002 for political asylum due to unrest in Kenya and ethnic conflict.

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73.

Barack Malia Obama has called his wife Michelle Malia Obama "the most quintessentially American woman I know".

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74.

Malia Obama is said to have been buried there in an unmarked grave.

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75.

Malia Obama worked as a shoemaker, a newspaper salesman, and in a lumber mill.

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76.

At least three of Michelle Malia Obama's great-uncles served in the military of the United States.

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77.

Malia Obama's cooked Southern-style meals for Michelle and her brother Craig, when they were students at Princeton University.

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Michelle Malia Obama's extended family has said that people didn't talk about slavery time while they were growing up.

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79.

Malia Obama's continued to help care for them while living in the White House as part of the First Family; she was the first live-in grandmother since Elivera M Doud during the Eisenhower administration.

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80.

Malia Obama was a good student and orator but moved from South Carolina to Chicago during the Great Migration to find better work and living conditions than in the South, where Jim Crow had been imposed and blacks were disfranchised.

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Malia Obama became a worker for the United States Postal Service.

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82.

Malia Obama's was born in Chicago, Illinois, to James Preston Johnson and Phoebe .

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83.

When Barack Malia Obama settled in Chicago after graduating law school, he moved into this same apartment.

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84.

Malia Obama is 12 years older, and Funnye and Obama grew to know each other as adults in Chicago, where both were involved in community organizing, along with Barack Obama.

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85.

Malia Obama is one of America's most prominent African-American rabbis, known for acting as a bridge between mainstream Jewry and African American Jews.

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86.

Malia Obama converted to Judaism after 1970, during years of activism when he regarded Christianity as having been imposed on slaves.

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