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HIS STORY IN HIS WORDS:BARACK OBAMA left Indonesia aged 10 and spent his teen years in Honolulu, where he went to Punahou School, a coeducational college. After Punahou, he studied for two years at Occidental College in Los Angeles before moving to Columbia University in New York, where he studied political science, specialising in international relations. He graduated with a BA in 1983.
He then worked for a year at the Business International Corporation, a publishing and advisory firm that tries to help American companies operating abroad. While there, Obama was a research associate in its financial services division.
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