Obama bụ onye a mụrụ na Honolulu, Hawaii. Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Mahadum Columbia na 1983, ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye nhazi obodo na Chicago. N'afọ 1988, ọ debara aha na Harvard Law School, ebe ọ bụ onye isi ojii mbụ nke Harvard Law Review. Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ, ọ ghọrọ onye ọka iwu na-ahụ maka ikike obodo na onye agụmakwụkwọ, na-akụzi iwu iwu na Mahadum Chicago Law School site na 1992 ruo 2004. Ọ nọchitere anya mpaghara nke iri na atọ maka okwu atọ na Illinois Senate site na 1997 ruo 2004 mgbe ọ gbara ọsọ maka Senate US. O nwetara nlebara anya mba na 2004 site na mmeri mbụ ya na March, okwu ihu ọha ya nke ọma na Democratic National Convention, na ntuli aka ya na November na Senate. Na 2008, a họpụtara ya ịbụ onye isi ala otu afọ mgbe ọ malitere mkpọsa ya na mgbe ọ gbasịrị mkpọsa megide Clinton. A họpụtara ya karịa Republican John McCain ma họpụta ya na Jenụwarị 20, 2009.
e debara aha ya n'Ụlọ Akwụkwọ Iwu nke Harvard