"I was thinking about the possibility of a Kenyan birth certificate so I tried to find out where in Kenya this would be found. I came across this book:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=oHR7IeMcayYC&pg=PA442&lpg=PA439&ots=3zDW_oqCeW&dq=Kenya+Birth+Records&sig=ACfU3U309m_2j4LAreI69bvy4GRMwgenDg#PPA439,M1
It gives this address: Principal Civil Registar, P.O. Box 30031, Nairobi, Kenya Tel: (011)(254)(2)7461 It also says that “Kenya is divided into districts and it is in the District Registry where the original birth and death certificates are kept. Duplicates are sent to the Central Registry. Cost of a birth certificate is Ksh 10.00.
Obama Sr.’s town is the Kisii District and the capital is Kisii Town.
It also says “The Family History Library of Salt Lake City, Utah has microfilmed records of Kenya and africa. For further details on their holdings please consult your nearest family History Center.”
On the same page as this information ther is a link to a site Birth.GovtRegistry.com. I tried it and put in the name Barry Dunham with Obama’s birthdate and the state of HI and they came back with one match. However this is a site you have to pay for so I couldn’t find out what they had.
I didn't identify the Family History Center as a Mormon entity. If it in fact is, I believe we can penetrate it.
I don't think the search should be limited to the Kisii district either. The Madsen Report Update says his birth records were in Mombasa which is on the South East Coast of Kenya.
We could indulge in all sorts of speculation--Mombasa is on a connection of the overseas leg of BOA to Vancouver BC; she went there when she couldn't get on the airplane to go back to the US--maybe a better medical facility than the bush.
Browardchad has exaggerated how little is available regarding Kenya: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitydetails&subject=274&subject_disp=Kenya&columns=*,0,0
That said, s/he is correct that there appear to be no microfiche records of Kenyan births listed. The closest thing appears to be this book:
A guide to the Kenya National Archives : to the microfilms of the provincial and district annual reports, record books, and handing-over reports, miscellaneous correspondence, and intelligence reports Gregory, Robert G.
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=topicdetails&subject=533383&subject_disp=Kenya+-+Archives+and+libraries&columns=*,0,0
So perhaps AlbertaChild was given incorrect information by someone who confused this book with the microfilms themselves etc.