"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 world’s 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 Gordon’s 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?
Kiano says he personally played a part in selecting students to India and Israel. He was a member of the India Government’s Scholarship Committee in the 1960s: “My colleague Oginga Odinga was able to obtain thousands of scholarships from the Eastern countries particularly the Soviet Union where the Patrice Lumumba University had just been established. He also obtained scholarships from Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and other countries. While Mboya and I were doing the American trips, Odinga was also travelling East.”
Among the beneficiaries to the Odinga airlifts was Cabinet Minister Joseph Kamotho. Kamotho studied both in the East and West. He went to the Soviet Union then returned to be given a scholarship to Syracuse University in the US.
Kiano says he personally played a part in selecting students to India and Israel. He was a member of the India Government’s Scholarship Committee in the 1960s: “My colleague Oginga Odinga was able to obtain thousands of scholarships from the Eastern countries particularly the Soviet Union where the Patrice Lumumba University had just been established. He also obtained scholarships from Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and other countries. While Mboya and I were doing the American trips, Odinga was also travelling East.”
Among the beneficiaries to the Odinga airlifts was Cabinet Minister Joseph Kamotho. Kamotho studied both in the East and West. He went to the Soviet Union then returned to be given a scholarship to Syracuse University in the US.