I read earlier today that Kenya had, and still has, a law recognizing multiple marriages for Muslim Kenyan men.
In other words, if SAD went to Kenya to give birth, her son would be legitimate. Perhaps that also allowed him recognition as a member of the Luo tribe, as well.
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That’s correct. Great Britain had an agreement with the Sultan of Zanzibar, the nominal ruler of Kenya’s Coast Province, that it could be included as part of British Kenya as long as Muslims were permitted to follow sharia law.
Which, of course, included multiple wives as a legitimate thing.
But although the institute of marriage has been progressively falling apart in the U.S., multiple wives have never been legal, as was demonstrated by the Mormon controversy in the 19th century. A second marriage is considered bigamous. And of course Obama senior was already married before he married Stanley Ann—if in fact he did, since we have never seen a marriage certificate, only a certificate of divorce.