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Right from the very beginning, I saw the born-in-Kenya story as a diversion, something like the mother-bird that runs around the nest in ever-increasing circles, pretending to have a broken wing; she screeches kenyan! kenya! Kenya! to lure away the hunter from her chicks. That's why there were so many born-in-kenya stories on the web, it stopped people asking where did he come from?

The born in Kenya mantra was useful to cement the idea in the mind that the black native who was 5'8" in height was the father of a very tall, skinny almost white indiviudual who looked nothing like him...

Who bore an uncanny resemblance to someone else, who spent more time in the Middle East from 1959 onwards than he did in the US. A man who advocated a Mau Mau for America, who planned to take the US to the United Nations - demanding reparations.

If I were looking for an overseas birth record for zero, I would be looking in Cairo...not in Kenya.