Posted on 06/24/2009 10:54:57 PM PDT by neverdem
Abercrombie witnessed the crumbling of Barack Obama Sr. during a trip to Africa in 1968. He and a mutual friend from Hawaii stayed with their old pal in Nairobi. “It was clear to us how disappointed he was,” Abercrombie recalls. “He was drinking. There was a bitterness in him, an edge.”
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Barack Obama Sr. to Tom Mboya, May 29, 1962
HOOVER INSTITUTION, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
January 25, 2010 news
Hoover Archives Unveils Correspondence Between Kenyan Independence Leader and American Philanthropist Responsible for Helping Educate Hundreds of Kenyans Including Barack Obama Sr.
Kenyan university students arriving at Idlewild Airport, New York, 1959 (William X. Scheinman Papers, Box 49:10, Hoover Institution Archives).The Hoover Institution Library and Archives recently announced the opening of the papers of William X. Scheinman (19271999), a longtime friend of and correspondent with Kenyan independence leader Tom Mboya. The highlight of the collection is the rich correspondence between Scheinman and Mboya, which contains hundreds of letters, beginning in 1957 and ending only with Mboyas untimely death from an assassins bullet in 1969. Mboya served in the first cabinet of Kenya after it achieved independence from Great Britain in 1963.
Scheinman, an American businessman and investment adviser, first met Mboya in 1956. In subsequent meetings the two men, realizing that the future development of an independent Kenya required an educated populace, developed a program to bring Kenyan students to the United States to pursue their university studies. Founded in 1959, the African American Students Foundation, with Scheinman as its president, helped make it possible for funding the education of hundreds of Kenyan students to study in the United States; among them was President Obamas father, Barack Obama Sr.
[25] Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, and Jackie Robinson appeal letter, Aug. 24, 1959, box 3, Robinson Papers; Smith, East African Airlifts of 1959, 1960, and 1961, 2543. Barack Obama wrote that his father had been selected by Kenyan leaders and American sponsors to attend a university in the United States, but a list of the students who landed in New York on September 9, 1959, does not contain the name of the elder Obama. Tom Shachtman, working in the African-American Students Foundation (aasf) papers for a book on the airlifts, has found that the elder Obama came in 1959 with support from the aasf but appears to have been routed a different way as he made his way to the University of Hawaii. Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (New York, 1995), 9; Eighty-One Kenya Airlift Students Arrived New York Sept. 9th 1959, box 3, Robinson Papers; Tom Shachtman telephone interview by James H. Meriwether, Aug. 19, 2008, notes (confirmed via e-mail by Shachtman) (in James H. Meriwethers possession).
WND - '62 letter from father ignores Obama, mom 'My wife is in Nairobi and I would really appreciate any help you may give her'
Posted: November 09, 2010
I think I get the picture now; the son of a kenyan goat-herder left the school at Maseno in 1953, married in 1954, and as he said at the interview in Hawaii in 1962, he hadn’t been back to Kenya for seven years, he must have left Kenya in 1955.
Right?
Not quite. His eldest child Malik was six years of age when he left Kenya, remember? How does that work?
I’ll try again.
The son of a kenyan goat-herder had a six year old son when he left Kenya in 1959, so he must have married when he was 17, and was working in Nairobi for an arab as a clerk...we all remember that, don’t we? And he was a friend of Mboya - wonder how they met? - but never mind, Kezia was pregnant when he left Kenya to go to Hawaii...and had a two year-old.
Hold it!
Didn’t the family in Kenya state at an interview that their son of a kenyan goat-herder relative went to the US, worked for an oil company and married a white woman named Anna Toot?
Yes, they did.
So we’ll have another go. The son of a kenya goat-herder - if we take him at his word, left Kenya seven years before he left Hawaii, and that makes it 1955, right? Ah! Beginning to see the light now...that’s why Kezia was confused, she must have married the son of the kenyan goat-herder in 1953, because at another interview she said her eldest was TWO years old when he left...
Getting closer?
In 2008 Kezia said her oldest son Malik was 50. But if the son of a kenyan goat-herder left Kenya in 1955 like he said at the Hawaii interview, Malik would have to be at least 55 if he was two years old when...
I’ve mucked up again, evidently.
It’s all too hard. Let someone else work it all out. What I can’t figure out is how could Mboya and the son of a kenya goat-herder be such good friends? If he left Kenya in 1955, he would have been around 19 years of age and Mboya who was five years older, was in England, studying at Oxford.
At least one thing seems clear. The son of a kenyan goat-herder was never part of the first airlift of students which landed at Idlewild three months before he showed up in Hawaii. And when he was first interveiwed in Hawaii in June 1959, he told the reporter he only had enough money for three semesters and needed to find work to support himself.
Just got lucky, I guess.
FOR THE RECORD
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
PAMELA MBOYA’ DEATH A SETBACK TO UNRAVELLING MBOYA’S MURDER 40 YEARS AGO
at 7:20 AM · THE STANDARD
NAIROBI, KENYA
By Kepher Otieno and John Oywa
The death of Pamela Mboya could be a setback to efforts to unravel the murder of her husband.
Relatives and friends of former Planning Minister Thomas Joseph Mboya yesterday said Pamela was planning to push for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission so that Kenyans could finally get to know why Mboya was murdered in cold blood in July 1969.
Mrs Mboya, 70, died at a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she was undergoing treatment on Monday.
Mr Otieno Nundu, a former personal assistant to the late Mboya and who was with him minutes before his assassination, said Mrs Mboya had planned to appear before the truth commission about her husbands death.
“She was to lead Mboyas friends and relatives to the commission. Now we are back to zero,” said Mr Nundu.
He added: “It is a big shock. With her death, many secrets about Tom may never be known.”
Annan Team
In February last year, Pamela wrote to the Kofi Annan mediation team and expressed her willingness to testify regarding the unresolved murder of her husband 40 years ago.
Mboya was shot in broad daylight on July 5, 1969 on Nairobis Government Road (Now Moi Avenue).
http://africanewsonline.blogspot.com/2009/01/pamela-mboya-death-setback-to.html
Your tenacity in the search of truth is boundless. If it would be of any benefit to you, I would claim you as a member of my immediate family. :-)
One, or both, of us has to post a revised chronology...as best fits the unadulterated facts as they appear to be, given our best guess. Already, my brain hurts... so you go first.
I.E., we need a new best-guess time-line-—a “simple” DATE-EVENT time-line.
I’m thinking we need to produce some kind of truth serum into which we immerse ‘Dreams From My Father’ ... it has to be a medium that disolves lies; so that the ink rises to a scum at the top. And what is left on the pages will be the truth.
But there’ll be nothing but empty pages -
FOR THE RECORD
Box: 18-20African-American Students Foundation File, 1958-1963.
Scope and Content Note
Bulletins, clippings, contracts, correspondence, forms, press releases, printed matter, records, and reports, arranged alphabetically by physical form Box/Folder: 18 : 7-8General, 1960-1961.
Scope and Content Note
Bulletins, forms, memoranda, and printed matterBox/Folder: 18 : 9Clippings, 1960-1961
Box/Folder: 18 : 10Contracts, 1960
Box/Folder: 19 : 1Correspondence 1958-1959
Box/Folder: 19 : 2-3Correspondence 1960
Box/Folder: 19 : 4-5Correspondence 1961
Box/Folder: 19 : 6Correspondence 1962-1963
Box/Folder: 19 : 7Financial records, 1960-1961
Box/Folder: 19 : 8Press releases, 1960-1961
Box/Folder: 20 : 1Reports, 1960-1961
Box/Folder: 20 : 2Student records, 1960-1961
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt0k4033gs;style=oac4;view=dsc#c01-1.3.6.5
About September 13, 1960 Organization: African American Students Foundation
Malcolm X meeting with students from East Africa at a welcoming program for students bought to the United States to study by the African American Students Foundation. Photo courtesy of Cora Weiss
Collection: Private collection of Cora and Peter Weiss
Title: African American Students Foundation (Cora Weiss collection)
Description: The African American Students Foundation (AASF) was founded in 1959. In April 1959, prior to Kenyan independence, trade unionist Tom Mboya visited the U.S. at the invitation of the American Committee on Africa; Mboya talked on many college campuses and was given scholarships from many colleges. The AASF was set up to raise money and bring students from East Africa to the U.S. to use these scholarships. Although based in New York, AASF had a national focus. Baseball star Jackie Robinson and performers Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier led the initial fundraising. AASF raised an initial $39,000 and as a result organized the first of several “airlifts” of East African students, mostly from Kenya, to the U.S. in September 1959. In 1960 the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation gave $100,000 to AASF. As a result in 1960 three planes were chartered bringing 222 students from east and central Africa. The archive includes photographs. Cora Weiss was Executive Director and student adviser. Archive deposited by Cora Weiss.
Housed At: Michigan State University Library, Special Collections
Location: 100 Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States
Catalog/Finding Aid: view
Restrictions: The archive may not yet be processed. Contact in advance.
Phone: 517-353-8700
Related Website: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/
http://africanactivist.msu.edu/organization.php?name=African+American+Students+Foundation
CORA WEISS HELD THE PURSE STRINGS!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278969/posts?page=567#567
So he wasnt on the airlift, but he was a member of the airlift family.
VineYard Gazette Online
http://www.mvgazette.com/article.php?22734
When I originally posted research, I had recalled that Weiss was not altogether satisfied with Shachtman's book and had considered writing one of her own.
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Harry Belafonte, pupil of W.E.B. DuBois, friend of Mao and Stalin, mentor to Frank Marshall Davis...
MIRIAM MAKEBA WITH HER HUSBAND STOKELY CARMICHAEL IN 1968
Stokely Carmichael's speeches at the University of Washington and Garfield High School on April 19, 1967 helped galvanize interest in the concept of Black Power
The Black Panther Party in Seattle, 1968-1970
The advisers to the Kennedy Foundation arrive in Nairobi to review the airlift operations. Back row, left to right: Albert Sims, Institute of International Education; Gordon Hagberg, African-American Institute; Theodore Kheel, secretary-treasurer of AASF. Front row, left to right : an unidentified man, Dr. Aaron Brown of the Phelps Stokes Fund, Tom Mboya, and Father Gordon Fournier of the Foundation for All Africa (1960).
Cold warrior for racial equality
Airlift students withTom Mboya (fourth right), Gloria and Gordon Hagberg (second and third right respectively).
...Their cook was Hussein Onyango Obama, none other than the paternal grandfather of President Obama. Gloria recalls the times Husseins son, the youthful student Barack Obama Sr, would visit their house, announcing: Ive come to see the old man!
Although the young Obama Sr. left for the University of Hawaii before the first formal student airlift, he did maintain his friendship with the Hagbergs when he returned to Kenya.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN INSTITUTE. GORDON HAGBERG. The very same Institute referrenced by David Horowitz in the book THE ROCKEFELLERS. In which David notes that the AFRICAN-AMERICAN INSTITUTE was instrumental in bringing several thousands of foreign students, many from Africa, to the US -IN THE EARLY FIFTIES.
So if anyone would know WHEN the son of THEIR COOK, Hussein Onyango Obama left Kenya, one might ask GORDON AND GLORIA HAGBERG.
"In 1935, she married Cornell University graduate Gordon Hagberg, a newspaperman born in India of missionary parents.
With the intensification of the Cold War, America began expanding cultural programmes in many of the worlds emerging nations.
Having always wanted to return to India, in 1950 Gordon got a job in the United States Information Service (USIS) and the couple spent two years in Madras.
It seemed almost fated that their next overseas assignment with USIS would bring them to East Africa, as Gordons parents had met in Lamu and married in Zanzibar.
In 1956, when the Hagbergs arrived in Nairobi, the Emergency was in its last two years."
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Assuming BHO, Sr left Africa earlier than 1959 (AND earlier than 1956 according to his statement, the time line doesn't work.
On the other hand, that doesn't mean they may not be in possession of some useful information.
I wonder where they were between 1952 and 1956?
Langston Hughes was a sponsor of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace which ran from March 25 - 27, 1949 in New York City. It was arranged by a Communist Party USA front organization known as the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions. The conference was a follow-up to a similar gathering, the strongly anti-America, pro-Soviet World Congress of Intellectuals which was held in Poland, August 25 - 28, 1948.[2]
Investigative journalist Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein, a former investigator with the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities, presented evidence Obama was mentored, while attending high school in Hawaii, by Frank Marshall Davis, an African-American poet and journalist who was also a CPUSA member.
The authors, in a separate report, document Obama's ties to radicals in Chicago who helped launch his career.
In a paper entitled "Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection," the authors document that in 1948, Davis decided to move from Chicago to Honolulu at the suggestion of what they describe as two "secret CPUSA members," actor Paul Robeson and Harry Bridges, the head of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen Union, or ILWU.
In Chicago, Davis had worked for the Chicago Star newspaper; in Honolulu, he was hired as a reporter for the Honolulu Record, both identified by Kincaid and Romerstein as "communist front newspapers."
Worked for Associated Negro Press Those books made Davis's reputation and cemented his relationships with Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and other leading black writers whom he met while participating in the federal Works Progress Administration Writers' Project and other organizations
Read more: Frank Marshall Davis Biography - Victim of Attempted Lynching, Worked for Associated Negro Press, Moved to Hawaii...
The Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 presented the most troubling dilemma for American Communists. It came on the heels of the bloody anti-Trotskyite Great Purges in which many CPUSA members quit the party with apprehension and fear over what the Party had become. Those who remained during the purges were, for the most part, dedicated anti-fascists. However, with the coming of the Communazi era wherein German Chancellor Adolf Hitler became an ally of the Soviet Union against French and British Imperialism, only the most ardent Stalinists continued in the party who were willing to overlook, and justify, Stalin's murderous excesses. Among them were Frank Marshall Davis.
HONOLULU, Hawaii The late Marxist activist Frank Marshall Davis, frequently accompanied by young Barack Obama and his grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham, sold marijuana and cocaine from a "Chicago style" hot dog cart Davis operated near his home on Kuhio Avenue in Waikiki in the early 1970s, WND has established.
A credible source, a well-known resident of Honolulu who spoke at length with WND on condition he not be named, disclosed that Davis was the source of drugs consumed by Obama. Davis was also the author of an autobiographical novel boasting of "swinging" and sex with minors, a copy of which WND obtained from Andrew Walden, a resident of Hilo on the island of Hawaii and publisher of the Hawaii Free Press...
..."Obama was a young kid, about 14 or 15 years old," the source told WND. "I was told his name was Barry, and there was no doubt Barry knew Davis was selling marijuana and cocaine as well as hot dogs from the stand."
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a black poet and writer (he wrote for the Honolulu Record, a Communist newspaper), and a known member of the Soviet-controlled Communist Party USA (CPUSA).
Davis good friend Paul Robeson, who himself was a dedicated Stalinist, persuaded him in 1948 to move to Honoloulu, Hawaii. In 1950 Edward Berman, a member of the NAACPs Honolulu branch, testified to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) that Davis had sneaked into local NAACP meetings to propagandize the organizations members about Americas racial problems, with the avowed intent and purpose of converting it into a front for the Stalinist line.
Davis was identified unequivocally as a CPUSA member in a 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii (CSALTH), which, along with HUAC, also charged that Davis was affiliated with a number of communist-front organizations. According to Max Friedman, a former undercover member of several Communist-controlled anti-war groups, Davis testified in 1956 before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and took the Fifth Amendment when asked about his Communist Party membership.
Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, and James Baldwin
Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou and James Baldwin
to be continued...
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