http://www.constitutionnet.org/en/vl/constitution-republic-kenya-1963-amended-2008
http://www.constitutionnet.org/files/Kenyan%20constitution%20amended%202008.pdf
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA, 1963
(as Amended to 2008)
CHAPTER I
The Republic of Kenya
1. Declaration of Republic.
Kenya is a sovereign Republic.
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I’ve written elsewhere that what matters is not what Media Matters quotes the WaPo as saying about Kenya joining as a “Republic of the British Commonwealth” in 12-1964 [http://mediamatters.org/blog/200908030001], but how Kenya and its government, since its indepedence in 12-1963 referred to itself.
This document reference found by politicalmerc seems to clear that little diddy right up.
I want to congratulate you on being the 384th freeper to misrepresent the modern, amended constitution as the original 1963 constitution.
The original 1963 constitution doesn’t have the word Republic in it.
But you’re in luck, because BP found that the coastal province in question considered itself a republic before the country did. So it doesn’t matter.