By most accounts (and contrary to various unproven internet myths), he got his money for college from loans, grants, scholarships, and financial help from his grandparents (who raised him for much of his life). He has said that he finally finished repaying the last of his college loans about eight years ago, in fact.
The senior Obama was not a wealthy man. He worked as an economist for the Kenyan government. His son, the President of the United States got his money mainly from the proceeds of two best selling books, Dreams from my Father and The Audacity of Hope
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