In 1961, hospitals in Kenya did issue birth certificates. Starting in 1964, so did the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Civil Registration Department, the National Registration Bureau, Immigration Department, Registrar General, National Social Security Fund, and the National Hospital Insurance Fund.
The document below purports to be a GOVERNMENTAL birth registry from 1961.
It most definitely is not. It is a fake and a poor one at that (starting with the wrong title of the document; the wrong official name of the country; wrong name of the province, etc).
Consider these 3 historical facts which the forger got dead wrong:
1. Kenyan official documents did NOT bear the name "REPUBLIC of Kenya" until 1.1.1964, if only because the Republic of Kenya was proclaimed in December 1963.
2. In 1961, Mombassa was in ZANZIBAR, not in Kenya.
3. In 1961, the hospital was called "Coast PROVINCIAL General Hospital".
Sam
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I worked in several countries in western Africa in the 1980s.
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The document may well be a forgery, but it is clearly dated February 17, 1964.
Ok, and this document is AFTER 1/1/64. So what is the problem??
And has been under British autority sice 1895