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(and I'd tend to doubt it because Kenya was and still is a "third world" country)

British colony. I'd bet the UK still has copies of the colonial records.

[justiceseeker93]

You are correct that Kenya was a British colony in 1961, which is when Obama was supposedly born. Still, socioeconomic standards among the native population would be considered "third world." I have no idea whether or not, assuming Obama was born there at that time, there would have been a birth certificate to document it. It's not as if the practice of using birth certificates was necessarily universal or even legally mandated then re the native population.

Furtherermore, assuming for the sake of argument that Obama was born there and that there was a birth certificate documenting it, why would the Brits have necessarily maintained a copy of such birth certificate when Kenya gained independence? It would seem more likely that they merely left that type of record in the hands of the new Kenyan government at the time. And with all the succeeding changes in that Kenyan government and civil strife, chances of such a birth record surviving wouldn't seem all that good.

Please to not think of a possible Kenyan birth certificate in the same terms as you would an American or Canadian or Western European certificate.