I bookmarked that second link, it will take some serious time to go through, thanks much!
This is tough doing this on our own but there is waaay too much at stake not to.
Questions are often more important than easy answers. I asked myself, is it possible obama snr and malcolm x knew each other before obama snr came to Hawaii? Malcolm made three trips to Ghana, the first in 1959. There was an African-American expat community in Ghana, which included DuBois, one of the founders of the NAACP, and notably, Maya Angelou.
SEE: VIEW DIGITAL OBJECTS. DU BOIS - Paul Robeson. NAACP. MAO ZEDONG ...etc.
http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/dubois/?cat=9
http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/teaching/2008_12/article.html
[25] Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, and Jackie Robinson appeal letter, Aug. 24, 1959, box 3, Robinson Papers; Smith, “East African Airlifts of 1959, 1960, and 1961,” 25–43. Barack Obama wrote that his father “had been selected by Kenyan leaders and American sponsors to attend a university in the United States,” but a list of the students who landed in New York on September 9, 1959, does not contain the name of the elder Obama. Tom Shachtman, working in the African-American Students Foundation (aasf) papers for a book on the airlifts, has found that the elder Obama came in 1959 with support from the aasf but appears to have been routed a different way as he made his way to the University of Hawaii. Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (New York, 1995), 9; “Eighty-One Kenya Airlift Students Arrived New York Sept. 9th 1959,” box 3, Robinson Papers; Tom Shachtman telephone interview by James H. Meriwether, Aug. 19, 2008, notes (confirmed via e-mail by Shachtman) (in James H. Meriwether’s possession).
Obama Snr was NOT part of the original airlift. The Journal of American History website makes interesting reading.
One can see how obama snr fell out with Kenyetta:
On December 12th, 1963, the British granted full independence to Kenya. KANU leader Jomo Kenyatta (a Kikuyu) became it’s first president.
This was the first period of freedom in Kenya history for a long time - at least formally, because the Cold War ensured plenty of Western grip in the next phase of Kenya history. Although the British had sentenced Kenyatta to 7 years of hard labour for his role in the Mau Mau rebellions, Kenyatta followed a course of reconciliation. He asked white settlers not to leave Kenya, let many colonial civil servants keep their jobs, and made Kenya a member of the British Commonwealth. In the Cold War he followed a pro-Western, anti-communist course (more on our separate page about Kenya and the Cold War). Foreign investments flew in because of Kenya’s relative stability and Kenyatta had political influence throughout Africa. A relative prosperous phase in Kenya history began.
http://www.kenya-advisor.com/kenya-history.html
In 1959 a monograph written by him was published by the Kenyan Department of Education, entitled Otieno jarieko. Kitabu mar ariyo. 2: Yore mabeyo mag puro puothe. (English: Otieno, the wise man. Book 2: Wise ways of farming.) [23]
In 1965 Obama Sr. wrote a paper titled “Problems Facing Our Socialism,” published in the East Africa Journal, harshly criticizing the blueprint for national planning, “African Socialism and Its Applicability to Planning in Kenya”, which had been produced by Tom Mboya’s Ministry of Economic Planning and Development. The article was signed “Barak H. Obama.” [24] As his son describes in his memoir, Obama Sr.’s conflict with President Kenyatta destroyed his career. (Dreams from my Father, pp. 214-216.)
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Barack_Obama,_Sr.?t=2.