We’ve discussed this “Toot” business before - but of course not everyone has read everything that’s been hashed out since 2008.
So I’ll repeat - having lived in HI for a good number of years (pretty long time ago), I never ever heard or read of any grandmother or older lady called “Toot”. It was ALWAYS Tutu. And the “u” sound is clipped. I never heard the honorific “Tutu” (short for “Tutu wahine” - grandmother) ever cut to just one syllable. Ever. It’s obviously a device Ayers put in the book to obfuscate truth.
The device used by Ayres to blend the names ANN and ANNA and TOOT into that paragraph I posted, tells us all we need to know, he wasn’t happy to leave it at TOOT, he had to weave the non-existant TUTU into the conversation to convince the Reader, and make it sound like some kind of Hawaiian vernacular.
He thought he was cleverly hiding the two women that the kenyan was running around with in Hawaii, as we discovered from the INS memo. And at the same time, blending in ANNA TOOT, the name the clan member recalled as stated in that 2004 article out of Kenya.
There’s one other, possible though not quite so believable happenstance...one of the girls he was charming in Hawaii was named Ann, and as he elder sister, I’ve seen it written, her family nickname might become Annie Tutu. That’s something like Auntie Annie.
Phonetically, if read out from a letter by Onynago, that name might have been remembered as Anna Toot. But it’s a stretch. Anna Toot married the kenyan, became Anna Obama and as he himself wrote, they separated and she moved to the Philippines.
We are handicapped by only being able to see the redacted immigration file. Sally Jacobs had the unredacted file for two years...she knows who Anna Obama was, but she’s not telling.
PS. TOOT JUST HAPPENS TO BE A COMMON FILIPINO SURNAME BTW.