Barack Obama’s father tops colonial list of Kenyan students in US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/18/barack-obama-father-colonial-list
Formerly secret British file reveals US concerns that Kenyans studying in America were ‘falling into the wrong hands’
The name of Barack Obama, the father of the American president, is on the top of a list of names revealed in a hitherto secret British colonial file of Kenyans studying in the US.
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Obama’s father among secret files on Kenyan students
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17748754
A diplomat said that 451 Kenyans were studying in higher education - in Africa, the UK, and Canada - on bursaries provided by the Kenyan government.
He questioned the calibre of students getting scholarships to US universities suggesting diplomats might “at your discretion” point out that those Kenyans going to the US held only “lower grades of school certificate”, as those on higher grades were studying in Africa.
He also said that the students had been personally selected by the scheme’s sponsors, who had picked candidates almost entirely from their own tribal groups.
“The motives behind this enterprise, therefore, seem more political than educational,” the note stated.
“The arrival here of these students, many of them of indifferent academic calibre and ill-prepared for the venture, is likely to give rise to difficult problems,” it said.