Thanks, what you wrote about that photograph seems reasonable. However, when you say 'before the airlift' I think you might mean before the kenyan flew to New York and ultimately arrived in Hawaii. For the sake of accuracy (which is in limited supply!) the kenyan student was NOT part of the airflift of students arranged by Tom Mboya and paid for by the AASF.
I just meant that the picture was taken in the year 1959 and before the Mboya Airlifts.
You are correct, Obama Sr. did not travel to the USA via the Mboya Airlifts.