Throwback photos of President Obama

 Barack Obama and his step grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama during his 1987 visit to Kenya

More memorable photos of President Obama after the cut. Really worth viewing them

 President Obama with his half-sister Auma Obama in the 1980's

 Barack Obama jnr. and his father. Obama's father left the family to study at Harvard when Barack was just 2, returning only once. Obama wrote with deep emotions about this visit in his memoir, remembering the basketball his father gave him, the African records they danced to, the Dave Brubeck concert they attended. Obama, then 10, never saw his father again.

Barack Obama and his step grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama during his 1992 visit to Kenya.

 President Barack Obama standing with his sister, Auma Obama, and his step grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, outside her house in his family's village of Kogelo, Kenya on Aug. 26, 2006.

.President Obama jokingly poses for his family wearing a new belt that he bought while on safari at Masai Mara, Kenya, on Aug. 30, 2006.

President Barack Obama is dressed as a Somali elder by Sheikh Mahmed Hassan (left) during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya, near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia in this file photo from Aug. 27, 2006.

                  President Obama at his family's village of Kogelo, Kenya, on August. 26, 2006.

President Obama talks with a group of orphans whose parents have died from AIDS at a CARE project that he partially funded in Siaya, Kenya, on Aug. 26, 2006.

Source: LAT