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Your reference to the Kenya Marriage Act of 1902 would be a valid one. Unfortunately it only applies to marriages licensed in Kenya. Tribal marriages are not considered binding in Kenya as they have never been licensed. Therefore Obama's tribal marriage to his three other wives, albeit polygamous in certain situations, were not legally binding.

Nevertheless, marriage to Dunham is irrelevant to Obama's citizenship. Based on citizenship law in the United Kingdom (Part II of the Nationality Act, 1948):

5.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a person born after the commencement of this Act shall be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent if his father is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies at the time of the birth

Lord have mercy, you TRULY do not understand how to read the law.

Did you bother to read the link that I gave you.

You totally misunderstand that Kenyan law.
Maybe this will help clear it up:
http://www.kenyalaw.org/

“Any person who is married under this Act, or whose marriage is declared by this Act to be valid, shall be incapable during the continuance of such marriage of contracting a valid marriage under any native law or custom, but, save as aforesaid, nothing in this Act contained shall affect the validity of any marriage contracted under or in accordance with any native law or custom, or in any manner apply to marriages so contracted.”

(2) Subject to the provisions of section twenty-three of this Act, any reference in this Act to a child shall be construed as a reference to a legitimate child; and the expressions “father”, “ancestor” and “descended” shall be construed accordingly.

Now, in case you don’t understand, this means the child cannot be a bastard except if someone is legitimated through the provision in section 23.

"Your reference to the Kenya Marriage Act of 1902 would be a valid one. Unfortunately it only applies to marriages licensed in Kenya. Tribal marriages are not considered binding in Kenya as they have never been licensed. Therefore Obama's tribal marriage to his three other wives, albeit polygamous in certain situations, were not legally binding."

No. Tribal marriages were legal and binding and you cannot play mix and match between the three legal types of marriage. There is no evidence that BHO Sr. was ever a Muslim (he was a professed atheist socialist) or that any of his three marriages were Muslim or that any of his wives were Muslim. Only multiple Muslim marriages would be permissable and only within Kenya...not in HI where bigamy of any kind is illegal.

You quoted from the 1948 BNA:

"5.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a person born after the commencement of this Act shall be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent if his father is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies at the time of the birth"

But this does not apply to Barry if his parents bigamous marriage made him illegitimate. UK does not recognize any marriage that was illegal where performed such as alleged Muslim plural marriages if performed where illegal.

Under the 1948 BNA only legitimate children of a UK subject father automatically become UK subjects at birth. You appear to have missed the following passage from my prior comment which would exclude little Barry from the passage you quoted:

“(2) Subject to the provisions of section twenty-three of this Act, any reference in this Act to a child shall be construed as a reference to a legitimate child; and the expressions “father”, “ancestor” and “descended” shall be construed accordingly.”

http://www.uniset.ca/naty/BNA1948.htm