what country is barack obama from?
United States of America
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 According to a DNA analysis , he is a descendant through African ancestral lines of the Igbo people of Nigeria . 

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 In a 2006 interview , Obama highlighted the diversity of his extended family : " It 's like a little mini @-@ United Nations " , he said . " I 've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac , and I 've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher . " Obama has a half @-@ sister with whom he was raised ( Maya Soetoro @-@ Ng , the daughter of his mother and her Indonesian second husband ) and seven half @-@ siblings from his Kenyan father 's family — six of them living . Obama 's mother was survived by her Kansas @-@ born mother , Madelyn Dunham , until her death on November 2 , 2008 , two days before his election to the Presidency . Obama also has roots in Ireland ; he met with his Irish cousins in Moneygall in May 2011 . In Dreams from My Father , Obama ties his mother 's family history to possible Native American ancestors and distant relatives of Jefferson Davis , President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War . 

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 Obama has visited Havana , Cuba for two days in March 2016 , becoming the first sitting U.S. President to arrive since Calvin Coolidge in 1928 . 

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 ^ a : Goran Suton was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 2006 . 

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 In the mid @-@ 2010s , Peart acquired American citizenship . 
