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Agreed, this blatant talk of Kenyan "origins" could be sleight of hand (I am not willing to discount it yet, but it is possible that the press in other countries is poking at us and laughing), and the truth could be hiding in plain sight. It's a good idea to keep an eye on the magician's hands and not just the cards or the rabbit. There may be a hint of truth with this tie to Tanzania. Some of us might remember from research from the long thread Background: Barack Hussein Obama Jr. is believed to have been born in Mombasa, Kenya If true, the city of Mombasa — in what is now Kenya — was part of what was known in 1961 as the “ten-mile strip”, a/k/a the “coastal strip” (and about a half dozen other names). Though the "coastal strip" was geographically in the then-Kenyan colony, it was politically under Zanzibar, which by then was independent from Tanganyika. Tracing the historical perspective of the land issue, the former CKRC commissioner, writes: “In 1895, the Sultan [of Zanzibar] gave the British power to administer the ten-mile coastal strip subject to their respecting the existing Kadhi’s Courts, among other conditions. The British did so and declared a protectorate over the Coast while the rest of Kenya was a colony proper. The Sultan [of Zanzibar], however, retained sovereignty over the ten-mile Coastal Strip. During the last years of the independence struggle and at the start of the Lancaster House Constitutional talks in 1961, the status and fate of the coastal strip came up for determination.” Kenya became independent on December 12, 1963. Zanzibar became independent two days earlier; but the “coastal strip” had been ceded by the Sultan of Zanzibar to Kenya in October 1963 in a recently-discovered letter (The Kenya Coastal Strip Ð Report). As part of this letter agreement between the the British Government, the Sultan of Zanzibar and soon-to-be-formed independent Government of Kenya, the Sultan of Zanzibar would surrender his Sovereignty claims over the "coastal strip", in consideration of the Kenya Government undertaking to respect and safeguarding inter alia the maintenance of the Sharia Law for Muslims and the retention of the Kadhi’s Courts. It's probable that NOT EVERYONE got this diplomatic memo announcing that the "Coastal Strip" would NO LONGER be part of Zanzibar (later Tanzania). On a side note, there are still many property disputes to this day between people who own property in the “coastal strip” and squatter who don't accept this October 1963 agreement. Things were obviously very unstable as the Brits set free empires throughout Africa. (Revisiting ten-mile strip controversy) Regardless, on January 12, 1964, insurgents overthrew the Sultan of Zanzibar and his government. By April 26, 1964, a merger of with the new government of Zanzibar with Tanganyika formed the new nation of Tanzania. Many of civil and Kadhi’s Court documents from the fateful Mombasa and “coastal strip” area surely lie in the hands of Tanzania officials from that confusing time in history ... possibly including a much-sought 1961 Kadhi Court “Marriage Certificate” between the parties of Obama/Dunham and/or a “Certificate of Life Birth” for a baby born circa Aug 1961 in Mombasa — named “Barack Abdallah Husein Obama”.
 Imams and Islamic Scholars in 1962 Zanzibar (later Tanzania)
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