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Until that matter can be resolved to prove that the Kenyan gov’t did indeed use documents with “Republic” instead of “Dominion” before it officially happened, I would have to take that document as a hoax :-(

Unless the Dominion of Kenya versus Republic of Kenya distinction is an internet error that has been proliferated by sites that heavily borrow off of each other. Most of these have been coin, flag, and Wikipedia links. Neither the CIA factbook nor the government of Kenya website discusses this.

Until that matter can be resolved to prove that the Kenyan gov’t did indeed use documents with “Republic” instead of “Dominion” before it officially happened, I would have to take that document as a hoax :-(

Well, so far I've found a 1964 publication with a piece by the Honourable Dr J.G. Kiano, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Republic of Kenya in a search of Google Books limited to Jan 1963 to January 1967 to "Republic of Kenya". The same dates yielded nothing for "Dominion of Kenya." In JSTOR, I found two matches for "Dominion of Kenya" for the years 1944 and 1949 and hundreds of hits for "Republic of Kenya."

In Lexis-Nexis-Academic, there were about 12 hits for "Republic of Kenya" in "major world publications" before Jan 31, 1980. There were no hits for "Dominion of Kenya" during this time period. Searching all dates, there were no hits for "Dominion of Kenya" but 997 hits for "Republic of Kenya."

Neither the CIA factbook nor the government of Kenya website discusses this.

Actually the CIA factbook page does mention it, under the Government tab, in the section
Constitution:

12 December 1963; amended as a republic 1964; reissued with amendments 1979, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2001; note - a new draft constitution was defeated by popular referendum in 2005