I’ve been looking at the BC off-and-on all day. Something was bothering me, so I looked it up, I tried looking up E.F. Lavender and couldn’t find anything. Problem was that a million hits to detergents and room fresheners makes searching hard. I then looked up Mombasa because I wondered where it was.
Mombasa wasn’t part of Kenya in 1961.
Mombasa was part of Zanzibar until 12 December 1963.
Was Obama born in Zanzibar?
Otega, Lavender A
P. O. Box 54268 - Nairobi
Tel: (20) - 631824 Amollo, Lavender Christine Akinyi
P. O. Box 9237 - 00300 Ronald Ngala St Nairobi
Tel: (20) - 601942
In current white pages for Kenya
E.F. Lavander was a real registar that has been confirmed on another thread.
E.F. Lavander was a real registar that has been confirmed on another thread.
No problem. This purported document is from 1964. It is a Kenyan document dealing with an event that supposedly took place in Mombasa not quite three years earlier. Mombasa was in the Coast Province of Kenya in 1964, so the official in charge of the birth records for Coast Province was responsible for checking the records of births in Mombasa; presumably whatever British Colonial unit was responsible for Mombasa when it was part of Zanzibar transferred its Mombasa records to the Coast Province of Kenya when Mombasa became part of Kenya.
If this document was purported to be a 1961 document, then we’d have a problem.
The document may be a fake. But Mombasa-Zanzibar-Kenya business need not be a deal-breaker. Someone would have to trace the exact structure of colonial and early independence bureaucracy in Zanzibar and Kenya to be sure. There must be records somewhere of which units were responsible for what when.