Yes. See: BACK HACK SACK RACK SMACK RACK BLACK CRACK FLACK STACK. It's instinctive for an english speaking person to add a 'c' - his name would have been written phonetically when he entered school. I'm guessing he dropped the english spelling on his return to Kenya.
Still not buying it unless I see that he signed his name that way or that is the way it is spelled in his records at UofH which I am sure it is by now. I want to see one thing that he signed and spelled it Barack. The examples you gave are words. Not names. I doubt he came here from Africa and said” My name is Barak Obama but since I’m in the US I will now be BaraCk Obama”.
However the captions with the photos of the party in Hawaii at post #0170 spell his name “Barak” and the friend remembers him as “Barak” so it would seem to me that whoever wrote the captions must have asked him his name and how to spell it and the friend also would have been told by Barak himself.
So if I’m a clerk, phoning the American embassy and the hospital person TELLS me his name is “BARek”, I write down B-a-r-a-C-k. Make sense....
And when the local clerk employed by the American Embassy sees the blank race, he fills in African. (I really don’t think there were too many countries where race was a blank)
Therefore, when HI fills out the COLB, the simply mimic the form wired to them by the American Embassy. IE: 1.Stanley Ann stop 2. Dunham stop 3....stop . etc etc