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.
I find that statement most interesting, all of Malcolm X timelines that I have been able to find show nothing of his visit to ANY African country during that period. All Malcolm X (official?) research sites skip that fact completely. Then the FOI page for that trip tells me FORBIDDEN.
Do you have a link to the Mboya/Malcolm X meeting in 1959?