“Nordyke BC states Honalulu, Oahu - the newly released Obama BC has Honalulu, Hawaii”
By the same token, Kenya, East Africa sounds odd. Shouldn’t it be the name of a city, Kenya? Or if it was even called Kenya at that time. I’m willing to listen - the explanation of African now makes perfect sense to me.
“Kenya, East Africa sounds odd. Shouldn’t it be the name of a city, Kenya?”
Yeah that is weird. Like Canada, North America.
Weren’t we told that the Lucas Smith document was a forgery because it said “Kenya” and there was no such place as Kenya in 1961?
Before it was the British Colony of Kenya, Kenya was known as the East African Protectorate or British East Africa (to differentiate it from German East Africa, which included what later became known as Tanganyika and that later merged with the island of Zanzibar to form Tanzania). It would not surprise me for a woman from Kansas to list her Kenyan husband (who may not have been present when she gave the birth info—his signature is not in the long-form birth certificate) as being from “Kenya, East Africa,” particularly since Obama Sr. was born in some tribal village, not in a city, and writing just plain “Kenya” would look awkward.
Kenya became independent on 12 December 1963, on the same day forming the first Constitution of Kenya.