[Flotsam_Jetsome]

"My premise from the beginning has been the African term was transfered from the Kenyan BC."

I'm with Windflier on this one, and think it's more likely the electronic "document" was assembled by a politically correct amateur. This of course does nothing to detract from the likelihood of a Kenyan birth.

[hoosiermama]

And the amateur just happened to pull the exact terminology used to designate a person with pigment used in Kenyans birth registry out of the top of their head? Coincidence?