4. Obama's relation with Hawaii
Barack Obama's parents met in 1960 while they were students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr., the university's first foreign student from an African nation, hailed from Oriang' Kogelo, Rachuonyo North District, in the Nyanza Province of western Kenya.
They do have property there in the community of Waimanalo on the island of Oahu.