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To: Fred Nerks; LucyT
The Luo shared power until 1966. The Luo leader in 1961 elected to take the VP slot. Kenyatta's release was well anticipated at least as early as April of 1961, as your source stated. He began entertaining foreign dignitaries while still under "arrest" pending his full release in August. There was time for an exited nationalist Kenyan to have wanted a son or grandson to be born on Kenyan soil, perhaps even imagining independence on Kenyatta's release. All speculative, of course, but my Luo comments are backed up, IMO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luo_people_of_Kenya_and_Tanzania

The Luo are the third largest ethnic group (13%) in Kenya, after the Kikuyu (22%) and the Luhya (14%). The Luo and the Kikuyu inherited the bulk of political power in the first years following Kenya's independence in 1963.

Kenya became independent on 12 December 1963. Oginga Odinga, a prominent Luo leader, declined the presidency of Kenya, preferring to assume the vice presidency with Jomo Kenyatta as the head of government. Their administration represented the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party. However, differences with Jomo Kenyatta caused Oginga to defect from the party and abandon the vice presidency in 1966. His departure caused the Luo to become politically marginalized under the Kenyatta and subsequently the Moi administrations.

200 posted on 03/15/2012 3:31:02 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
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To: Seizethecarp

You can spin it all you like, you were suggesting that the kenyan took SAD to Kenya to celebrate Kenyatta - but Kenyatta was still in jail on that ‘birthdate’. There’s something wrong with your head, mate.
What you write reads like Barbara Cartland meets 007. Calling the son-of-a-kenyan-goat-herder a ‘princeling’ FINISHED it for me.


201 posted on 03/15/2012 3:38:39 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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