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To: Greenperson

You would need to visit Nairobi to seek this type of documentation. For 99.99999999999999999999999999999 percent of young Kenyan men of David’s time that info is not available online. I did post an article from The Nation that cited the motorcycle accident/death. Whether a newspaper of that size and scope writes up every single traffic fatality in Nairobi is a question only a researcher there on the ground could answer.

The Wall Street Journal (for example) doesn’t note individual traffic accidents. Like The Nation, The Journal cultivates a country-side audience. People in CA don’t really care much about a traffic fatality in NY, so they’re not cited in The Journal. [Also bear in mind when David died he was a nobody. No one in his family amounted to a hill of beans. It was nearly a decade later before Obama began his ascent, and that was the first point at which anyone cared anything about his relatives. [Though even then not much. Only when Obama became a presidential contender did the relatives start to receive any real attention.]

Your other questions also would be best answered by a person in Nairobi willing and able to do onsite research. That’s been my point all along.


892 posted on 03/30/2014 10:56:39 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter
The Wall Street Journal (for example) doesn’t note individual traffic accidents.

and you can't get a stock quote at your local police station.

The Journal cultivates a country-side audience. People in CA don’t really care much about a traffic fatality in NY, so they’re not cited in The Journal.

Do you really believe that is the reason? Is that why they publish quotes for California municipal bonds? Because that's what the people in CA care about?
899 posted on 03/31/2014 6:29:01 AM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Fantasywriter
For 99.99999999999999999999999999999 percent of young Kenyan men of David’s time that info is not available online.

and that makes absolutely no sense at all.
901 posted on 03/31/2014 6:54:09 AM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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