FWIW — it seems like 1960-1963 was a really good time for Barack Obama (Sr.) to be out of Kenya and going to school in Hawaii and Cambridge. There was a really nasty war going on there at the time with Jomo Kenyatta’s Mau Mau terrorizing the Brits and everyone else.
I remember because my husband was finishing engineering school at UC Berkeley during those years and we had very little money (no TV, no newspaper) but I used to listen to the radio all day while I took care of my babies (one of them just about the same age as BO). My husband loved the names of the “leaders” of the Kenyan revolution and how they rolled off your tongue. He used to call my beautiful baby daughter “Little Colonel Mobuto” and he called me “Patrice Lamumba”. I didn’t think it was funny or flattering, but we all survived his teasing. LOL.
However, the news coming out of Kenya was NOT good.
Yikes, didn't he eat his enemies?
Mobutu and Lamumba were from the Congo, not Kenya.
Good info! Could be the reason why they left.