Ack -- ten pages that somehow read like they could have been written about Obama's campaign. (Patrice Lamumba worked out well, didn't he?) The reference is on Page 8, for anyone who cares to bypass the propaganda.
If the Boston Globe reported that Susan Mboya "declined to release the letters," wouldn't that indicate that a) the letters is question are not at the Stanford archive; or b) if they are at the Stanford archive, she has right of refusal for release; or c) the letters don't exist. (I choose Door C, Alex.)
Normally, collections stored at University libraries are publicly accessible, but as we learned with the Annenberg Challenge records stored at the UC libary, those rules aren't always followed, particularly if the information pertains to Barack Obama.
The article which I linked to was written in 1960 so although it may read like Jr’s campaign I trust the writing of a journalist who actually practiced the art compared to the presstitutes of today. In 1960’s Africa, independence for former colonies was big news and such news would focus on those fighting for independence as the article did with Tom Mboya, especially considering Jomo Kenyatta wasn’t available to interview. I did scroll through the Mboya holdings at Stanford and one section does describe “personal correspondence including letters between Mboya and students of the airlift”. I would trust the listings at Stanford more so than I would trust the presstitute who conveniently wrote that Susan Mboya refused to release her father’s papers when his papers are held at Stanford. Presstitutes these days are lazy as was evident during the past two years taking much for granted, especially within Jr’s fairytale. Also if I remember correctly Susan Mboya was quite young when her father was killed so it is difficult to believe that she is accurate in her memories or even that she read every single article within her father’s papers. She presently is the head of an organization which raises funds to send African women to the U.S. for an education imitating her father. Apologies for the late reply, I was looking to see how old Susan was but was not successful although I did find a few more articles to add to my “dirt in woodpile” file. Tom and Pamela were married in 1962 and had their first daughter, Maureen, in 1963. Susan was born sometime after that and their son, Lucas, was 21 months old when his father was killed. It was quite interesting reading about the Mboya family and I was struck by the fact that Susan has returned to Kenya and now represents Coca Cola but I haven’t found a date when she returned to the country yet.
Did she vote in the election before she returned to Kenya, and did the girls in her airlift program have her support when they worked for Jr’s campaign?