“Methinks he spent five years on the mainland, married a woman named Anna Toot and worked for an oil company, just like the relatives in Kenya said he did.”
So per your scenario at age 19 in 1955 he leaves Kenya for the mainland USA, marries, works for an “oil company” for five years and then shows up in HI in 1960?
A US oil company hiring a 19 year old Kenyan in 1955 would be a bit far fetched to me, but this whole thing is way past bizarre!
Given my experience with reporters screwing up dates and ages as well as the memory of aging folks getting confused, I think I’ll go with him leaving Kenya in 1959 for HI.
If you have more on Anna Toot, the oil company or where and how he might have come to the mainland in 1955 and then gotten to HI I would love to consider it, of course.
Not at all...he worked for an oil company on his return to Kenya:
Mboya DID NOT give the son of a kenyan goat-herder a job; when he returned to Kenya HE WORKED FOR AN OIL COMPANY.
The 75-year-old adds he knew Obama Sr when he worked for BP/Shell in Nairobi.
“One of his friends was President Kibaki. One day when I was walking with him in Nairobi, Kibaki, then the Minister for Finance stopped his car next to us and offered him a lift,” says Tolo.
He adds: “The President rode with him to his office and I am told that was the day he got a job in the Treasury as an economist.”
Kibaki was previously Vice President of Kenya for ten years from 1978–1988 and also held cabinet ministerial positions, including a widely acclaimed stint as Minister for Finance (1969–1981), Minister for Home Affairs (1982–1988) and Minister for Health (1988–1991).[1]
There are other sources that place his employment with the government of Kenya commencing 1970. In any event, it could NOT have been before Kibaki became Minister for Finance in 1969.
WIKI:
Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya (August 15, 1930 - July 5, 1969) was a prominent Kenyan politician during Jomo Kenyatta’s government. He was founder of the Nairobi People’s Congress Party, a key figure in the formation of the Kenya African National Union (KANU), and the Minister of Economic Planning and Development at the time of his death.
Mboya was assassinated on July 5, 1969 in Nairobi.