I don’t know whether or when Ann went to Kenya.
My comment was as to the birth announcement and why it might have been published.
There’s always a chance it was published to make Ann’s situation socially correct-—she was 18 after all. She may actually have been married and married at the time baby Barack was born, but it probably wasn’t a conventional situation with a big wedding, showers, and so on. Maybe her family simply wanted to announce that Ann wasn’t a floozy teen, but a married woman who had legitimate child. Just in case the neighbors were wondering.
You said — “I don’t know whether or when Ann went to Kenya.”
Well, at this point, you have to take the parties at their word. You see, she said she married him. And guess what — he couldn’t be married in the United States, because that’s bigamy. That would end up throwing the Kenyan father of Obama in jail, in the U.S. He was married already.
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Obama Sr. was married at the age of eighteen in a tribal ceremony to Kezia, with whom he had four children.
[from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_Sr. ]
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“The couple married on February 2, 1961; they separated when Obama was two years old and divorced in 1964.”
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama ]
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So..., he could be married again in Kenya, since that was allowed, and it would give him more status, too.
Then you put with that, the fact that the grandmother says she was there when Obama was born in Kenya and you have even more testimonial evidence.
And furthermore, it was probably the plans of Ann to come back to the U.S. and have Obama born there. But, when the airlines wouldn’t allow her to fly back in her advanced state of pregnancy, she was stuck in Kenya and gave birth to Obama there.
That fouled up the plans for Ann to have her son as an American citizen and so she immediately got back to Hawaii to set up the pretense that Obama was born there and placed the ad in the paper. She was only thinking about him being an American citizen and the advantages of that.