“If you get lucky, you’ll find a birth registration for BHO2 in Kenya for the boy born seven months before zero. His father wrote home and told them he had a son in the US, remember? If he wasn’t going to give him up, which he evidently didn’t, one of the family would have arranged for a birth registration for him.
“And don’t tell me that wasn’t possible. Jaramoghi Oginga Odinga would have seen to it.”
Odinga was not in power yet, as Kenya was still a UK colony with UK in control of vital records. The Daily Pen article just happens to include the procedure for registration of a foreign birth to a UK subject:
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Based on procedures defined in Britain’s Births & Deaths Registration Act of 1953, The British Foreign & Commonwealth Office states the following:
“Registering A Birth
If your child is born outside the United Kingdom you can register the birth with the nearest consulate (Local British Foreign & Commonwealth Regional Registrar Office), or with our consular department in London if you’ve returned to the United Kingdom...The standard of birth registration in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Republic of Ireland, Africa and Overseas Territories is similar to the standard of birth registration of the UK.”
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I don't see any provision for a family in Kenya to register a foreign birth in HI as though it were a birth in Kenya based on a mere letter of notification. Kenya was not Hawaii, after all! It looks like a foreign birth to a wife of BHO Sr. would have had to have been either registered “with the nearest consulate” but there is a catch. Under the BNA of 1948 only legitimate children were UK subjects at birth if foreign born and Kenya Colony Marriage Act did not recognize bigamy and there was already a vital record for a marriage in Kenya in 1954 for BHO Sr.
So it would seem that only a legitimate child of the Kenyan wife, or an illegitimate child born on Kenyan soil with BHO Sr. on the BC as father could have triggered the 1961 vital record in the BNA Kew archive in the article.
I don't give a fig nor fart for what it looks like to you, JARAMOGHI OGINGA ODINGA was the man who arranged the scholarships for kenyan students to attend the Lumumba University, including one for his own son, whom he named after Castro, it was OGINGA ODINGA who visited Malcom X in Atlanta in 1960. The blacks were so enamoured of OGINGA ODINGA they wrote a song about him.
YOU CAN'T TELL ONE ODINGA FROM ANOTHER.
There's NOTHING Jaramoghi couldn't have done for his Luo friend in Hawaii, and that quite probably included finding a place for his son in the early eighties, at the same university in Moscow he sent his own son Fidel to.
According to Luo tradition, a Ker can not be a politician, so Odinga relinquished his position as king in 1957 and became the political spokesman of the Luo. The same year, he was elected member of the Legislative Council for the Central Nyanza constituency, and in 1948 he joined the Kenya African Union (KAU). In 1960, together with Tom Mboya he joined Kenya African National Union (KANU). When Kenya became a Republic in 1964, he was its first Vice-President.
