So, the E.F. Lavender soap has nothing to do with the certificate? Such as making it easy to be caught as fake?
I am getting confused here.
Lavender’s not such an uncommon name. I’d be 98% believing, if only I could see a handful of comparable documents showing “Republic of Kenya” in use ten months before it became part of their constitution.
And I don’t believe in much.
That paper looks to be too good a fake to foul up with an obvious historical error. It looks good enough to be real.
According to a relative who was there... it was not uncommon in colonial times/first half of the century for Africans to take English names. Since the only English that that saw was on signs at work or shopping they took names like Mr Ferguson Machinery or... or Mr EP Lavender (soaps).