Obama At 54: US President's Life And Career In Photos

President Barack Hussein Obama is not only 44th president of the United States, but also the first African-American to hold the office. He celebrates his 54th birthday today, Tuesday, August 4. Naij.com looks back at his life and career in pictures.
The selection of photos might give you a clue of who Obama truly is, his philosophy, his style, his passion and all that forged him into the kind of extraordinary leader he has become.

The US President taking some gulps from his cup of Guinness

Dancing with his wife and First Lady Michelle Obama as
 Beyonce sings ‘At Last’ during the first Inaugural Ball
on January 20, 2009

Obama at ‘Prom’. Photo: The Telegraph

With the Queen, First Lady Michelle Obama and Prince
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, during a visit to London in 2011

The president with his family on stage

Sharing a pal-knuckle with his wife Michelle

The US leader in the rain

Sharing a hot dog with David Cameron

Obama eat-shaves and ice-cream

Making a lay-up back in his days at college

Barack and Michelle in passionate dance

A Nairobi lawyer has offered 50 cows as bride price for
 Obama’s daughter, Malia

Obama steals a kiss at a basket-ball game

Obama and Michelle with the Queen at his 45th birthday

Taking a short trip from Camp David, Saturday, August 1

Obama has been tagged America’s
 most stylish president

President Barack Obama makes a statement at the
 United Nations Climate Change Conference at the
Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009

U.S. President Barack Obama greets singer Beyonce after
 she performs the National Anthem during the public
 ceremonial inauguration on the West Front of the U.S.
Capitol in 2013 [Getty Images]

U.S. President Barack Obama jokingly mimics US Olympic
 gymnast McKayla Maroney’s [Getty Images]

President Barack Obama jumps into the ocean at Pyramid
Rock Beach in Hawaii, 2013 [Getty Images]

Looking cool after being elected president of the Harvard
 Law Review in 1990

Posing with children dressed as elves, with First Lady
 Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha (left) and Malia
 before the taping of the Christmas in Washington
 television special

Kissing First Lady Michelle Obama at the annual White
 House Easter Egg Roll

Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Barack Obama
 meet Jimbelung the koala before the start of the first
G20 meeting in Brisbane, Australia

NCAA Champion UConn Huskies Women’s team member
 Stefanie Dolson (left) smiles as President Barack Obama
 receives a new basketball shirt

With Prime Minister David Cameron as Denmark’s Prime
 Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt (C) takes a selfie as
 First Lady Michelle Obama looks unimpressed

A quick hamstring stretch while on the phone in the Oval
Office with Speaker of the US House of Representatives
 John Boehner

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Nigerian President
 Muhammadu Buhari (L) in the Oval Office

Obama made history on his visit to Ethiopia, he addressed the
 conference of the African Union – the first American
 president to do so

A welcome parade in Ethiopia for President Obama at
his visit in July 2015

Obama met with a group of farmers in Ethiopia when he
 visited in July 2015

Barack gets a bit of help to stand up after a photoshoot in
 Chatfield, Minnesota

Holding a crying baby as he greets diners at the Great Eastern
 Chinese restaurant in San Francisco in 2012

Larking around in a pro-healthcare video shot for Buzzfeed

Laughing at the hair nets the members of the press have to
wear during a tour of Faffa Food

On the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in
 2012

With daughter Sasha at a community service project at the
D.C Central Kitchen in celebration of the Martin Luther
 King, Jr. Day of Service and in honour of Dr. King’s
 life and legacy.

With David Beckham (right) while a jersey is presented to
 him during an event in honour of Major League Soccer
 champions, the LA Galaxy

With his wife Michelle and daughters Sasha (L) and Malia
 in a hotel room as they wait for election results in 2004

With Malia and Sasha on a family holiday in a picture
 posted on social media

With President Nicolas Sarkozy of France in 2010

With Pope Francis, Vatican, 2014

Happy Birthday President Barack Obama, have a drink on us!

Standing in for Santa, with two bags full of toys and gifts
donated by the Executive Office of the President staff to
 the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program at
 Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling

Barack Obama tastes German beer

The US president can step out in an unofficial outfit

U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle
 Obama drink Guinness beer as they meet with local
 residents at Ollie Hayes pub

On Monday, a day before his birthday, President Obama released the final version of America’s Clean Power Plan. According to the statement by the White House, the initiative is “the biggest, most important step we’ve ever taken to combat climate change.”