He was told he was Kenyan after he was told he was Indonesian. By the time you met him he was seriously messed up and was telling the current story. From what I’ve read of the researchers’ comments, by they time you met him he knew that his father was MX and not the Kenyan 0bama, and of course he’d be been taken away from the Indonesian family who took care of him, years before.
He was already a dope fiend and psycho at age 18.
Resident Barry has African hair. The idea that his color comes from south Asia is a dead end for that reason alone.