thanks for the links, but I don’t quite follow what you are getting at. The information I have added to the thread simply shows that Mboya and obama snr were close, Malcolm X went to Kenya in 1959 and a number of people were instrumental in providing the means for obama snr to go to Hawaii.
The FOI page that relates to the Malcolm X visit - states:
Malcolm X shows pictures of his travels in Africa, urges blacks to fight whites at home, not abroad, and that whites are afraid of what Muslims will do next (9/25/59).
http://www.wonderwheel.net/work/foia/1960.html
Are you saying Malcolm X was not in Kenya in 1959 - that he never met Mboya or Elizabeth Mooney Kirk?
Malcolm X was in Ghana in 1959 not Kenya and he met Tom Mboya at that time.
Obama Sr was close to Tom Mboya to a point, but when he wrote his socialist paper in 1965 he was hoisted on his own petard. Tom Mboya was not a socialist but he was the Minister of Economics and Obama Sr worked under him. After Sr’s paper was published he was shuffled off to the Tourism Ministry and became increasingly vocal of those who were hired that didn’t have the qualifications he had. He complained to friends that he was “paid peanuts” for all of the education he had. Tom Mboya may very well have been one of those who Sr was criticising.
Here is a link which has some background of the Luos( might want to skip it) as well as other articles about Tom Mboya and mentions of Obama Sr. It also has a photo of some of the Kenyans on their way to the airport. I do have the article in which it mentions Sr complaining to friends that he was being “paid peanuts” and will have to find it amongst all these links. When I find it I will post it for you. I spent last week looking into Tom Mboya and his family in further detail than I had before and found new info on Sr at the same time.
http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/tag/tom-mboya/