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As a young man in Kenya in 1958 President Obama's father, Barack Hussein Obama, wrote to institutions in the US to ask for help to pursue his dream of studying in America. He was successful and went on to attend the University of Hawaii where he met President Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, and their son was born in 1961. His letters from 1958 to 1964, when he returned to Kenya, were found in the archives of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York in 2013, but have only just been described publicly this week. Newsday's Lawrence Pollard found out more from the director of the Center, Dr Khalil Gibran Muhammad. (Photo: President Obama's father, Barack Hussein Obama. The picture is seen hanging on the wall of the family home in Kogelo Western Kenya in 2008. Credit: Getty)