There is an interesting article in “Time” about the Kenyan student airlift which I will see if I have in my favs. It was written in 1960 or so and explains the funding acquired for its execution. I found it when I was searching for info on Tom Mboya.
Another question which I haven’t been able to answer is:
How did Obama Sr manage to travel to HI in 1971 considering that the Boston.com article clearly stated that he had his passport pulled for several years after Mboya’s death in 1969?
As an aside, I noticed that Mboya’s widow, Pamela, passed away suddenly in South Africa in January of this year. I read a very short article which said she passed away suddenly while receiving treatment in South Africa. Her daughter, Dr Susan Mboya, now lives in Cincinnati and works for P&G.
I give that story a -10 in credibility, and have since I first read it. In a word, it's nonsense. The so-called author starts off with the exciting story of Sr.'s witness of Mboya's assassination, followed many several graphs later with the admission that there's no proof of the story. To wit:
"...During a visit from his old school friend, Zane, in 1974, Obama confided that he had seen Mboya's killer and claimed to be the only witness who could identify him. According to an biography of Mboya, "Tom Mboya: The Man Kenya Wanted to Forget," nine eyewitnesses to the shooting failed to identify Njoroge in a police lineup.
Obama is not mentioned in the book. If Obama identified the killer, or tried to, press accounts of the trial are silent about it."
Then we have Susan Mboya's testimony that her father "was aware that Obama had a child in Hawaii, and was not happy about Obama's plans to leave his son behind," and "In one of a series of letters the two men exchanged, Mboya chastised his protégé, Susan Mboya said."
But for some unexplained (cough, cough) reason, "She declined to release the letters."
Uh, huh. Susan Mboya was an early supporter of Obama's campaign, but she didn't manage to get into the act, supporting Abercrombie's memories of the great love affair, until late September, 2008? In one story, in the Boston Globe? With no proof, other than her say-so -- just like the pulled passport, and Sr.'s witness of Mboya's death. It's all true, it's just that, well, there's no independent proof....