[xine]

Since it didn’t become a “Republic” until DECEMBER of 1964, and this document is dated FEBRUARY of 1964, I would think that they would still use the term “Dominion” on official paperwork. I think that’s the more reasonable explanation. It seems very unlikely to me that they would have printed up official documents with “Republic” about 11 months prior to the changeover.

Until that matter can be resolved to prove that the Kenyan gov’t did indeed use documents with “Republic” instead of “Dominion” before it officially happened, I would have to take that document as a hoax :-(

[Red_Devil 232]

That is exactly why I made the statement that they may have been “preparing” to become a Republic. I had found a reference to the Parliment of Kenya voting in October 1964 to become a Republic. Now I can’t find it - visited so many web sites!

[Onerom99]

This is where it’s fuzzy. Kenya was absolutely no longer a Dominion in February 1964 either.

The probability that they printed up “Republic” documents 11 months before officially becoming a republic, seems more likely to me than the probability of them holding over British “Dominion” documents.

[aruanan]

Until that matter can be resolved to prove that the Kenyan gov’t did indeed use documents with “Republic” instead of “Dominion” before it officially happened, I would have to take that document as a hoax :-(

Unless the Dominion of Kenya versus Republic of Kenya distinction is an internet error that has been proliferated by sites that heavily borrow off of each other. Most of these have been coin, flag, and Wikipedia links. Neither the CIA factbook nor the government of Kenya website discusses this.