[aruanan]

Where did this “certificate of birth” come from? The language in the watermark is Dutch, saying something to the effect that it if there are any changes it is not a valid document, so it’s clearly official paper from some Dutch speaking country, possibly South Africa. But why would Kenya be using South African paper (in 1961 or at any other time)?

If South Africa, because South Africa was the high tech country of the African continent back in 1961 (and is still so today) and would be more likely to be a paper manufacturer and printer of government documents for other African countries than other African countries.

[livius]

That’s possible; I guess it would be easy enough to clear up by finding other Kenyan BC’s from that time. I didn’t mean to get off topic (since this is not the document we’re discussing on this thread) but I was curious about it.