I’d be convinced about David’s existence if somebody provided a convincing copy of the newspaper story that MUST HAVE accompanied the fatal motorcycle accident in Kenya. Maybe the Nation has one in its archives? Can someone explain why Mark inherited but David didn’t? He was still alive when their father died. He’s supposed to be buried with his father in the family plot. Where’s his tombstone? Death certificate? I won’t dare ask for his birth certificate. You know what kind of trouble that causes.
Funny. Maybe he’s hard to find because he went into the hospital as one person in 1983, and came out as another?
You would need to visit Nairobi to seek this type of documentation. For 99.99999999999999999999999999999 percent of young Kenyan men of David’s time that info is not available online. I did post an article from The Nation that cited the motorcycle accident/death. Whether a newspaper of that size and scope writes up every single traffic fatality in Nairobi is a question only a researcher there on the ground could answer.
The Wall Street Journal (for example) doesn’t note individual traffic accidents. Like The Nation, The Journal cultivates a country-side audience. People in CA don’t really care much about a traffic fatality in NY, so they’re not cited in The Journal. [Also bear in mind when David died he was a nobody. No one in his family amounted to a hill of beans. It was nearly a decade later before Obama began his ascent, and that was the first point at which anyone cared anything about his relatives. [Though even then not much. Only when Obama became a presidential contender did the relatives start to receive any real attention.]
Your other questions also would be best answered by a person in Nairobi willing and able to do onsite research. That’s been my point all along.