It’s getting VERY interesting:
Kenya to Hawaii
1959 Malcolm X travels to Middle East and Africa including Kenya. Malcolm X meets with Jomo Kenyatta (recently released from prison following his conviction on leading the Mau Mau Rebellion), Tom Mboya, and may have met Barack Hussein Obama Sr, who was Mboyas close confident and fellow Luo tribesman both from Lake Victoria.
Due to a program offering Western educational opportunities to outstanding Kenyan students that was organized by nationalist leader Tom Mboya, Obama Sr. was awarded a scholarship in economics, and at the age of 23 (1959) he enrolled at the University of Hawaii. Initial financial supporters of the program included Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Jackie Robinson, and Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, a literacy advocate who provided most of the financial support for Obama Senior’s early years in the United States. Elizabeth Mooney Kirk worked in Kenya and in concert with Jomo Kenyatta and Tom Mboya. Kirk and Malcolm X, both New Yorkers, would have certainly met in Kenya. Kirk co-authored many books with Frank Charles Laubach, founder of LLI.
Aside: Contrary to Obama’s claims in speeches in January at American University and in Selma last year, the Kennedy family did not provide the funding for a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the United States that included Obama’s father
NOW CAN WE SEE WHY THAT FOI ENTRY FOR THE TRIP TO AFRICA BY MALCOLM X MIGHT HAVE BEEN BLOCKED? IF HE WAS IN KENYA AND MET OBAMA SNR THERE, THAT BLOCKED ENTRY MAY HAVE PHOTOGRAPHS WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO SEE.
The flight to the U.S. with the original 81 students left Kenya Sept.5/59. The students remained together in the U.S. for a two week orientation period before they left to go to their respective schools. Also Jomo Kenyatta was not released from prison until August 17,1961.
From the FBI files I read on Malcolm X he was in Ghana which is where he met Tom Mboya, he was not in Kenya.
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An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, surrounded by mystery.