Anecdotal, simply one blogger repeating the words of another. Pity about that, I thought you may have sourced something we missed.
I did hear that garbled audio in which ‘Granny’ Sarah spoke. Of course she was ‘there’ when Barack was born, she was one of the wives of Onyango, possibly even assisted the mother, Akumu, at the birth.
The translation of that audio was very poor, there was no way one could tell which ‘Obama’ she was referring to, or when it took place.
The missionary story is something else. The Kenyan student was pathetically short of funds, he was begging the African American Students Foundation for assistance, he had arrived in Hawaii with enough money for one semester, and stated he needed to find work. He worked at the Dole Corp Cannery for one month, earning $1.53 an hour, iirc.
That was after his patron, Elizabeth Mooney-Kirk was no longer able to support him.
Airline tickets for two to Kenya and return would have been way beyond his capacity. The clan in the village, we are asked to believe, was supporting his wife Kezia (if she really was his wife) and her two children. Take a good look at how they lived - on corn they grew, chickens and a few cows they milked. The clan couldn’t have raised enough funds for a bus trip to Nairobi in 1960-61, let alone return flights for two to Kenya/Hawaii.
Onyango worked as cook for Gloria Hagberg for a time, he lived sparely, read his Koran by candle-light.
You might counter by saying that the Dunhams paid the airfares. Sorry, that doesn’t wash either. Ann S Obama listed in the Hawaii directory wasn’t Stanley Ann Dunham, who didn’t show up in Hawaii until after she changed her name to Ann Dunham Obama in January 1963, when we see her photographed with a toddler, and she enrolled at the University of Manoa.
She may have made one short appearance in late August 1961 when she showed a very young baby to Susan Blake, and told her she was going to Boston that very same day; after which none of her friends or classmates saw her again. ( Well, not until they tried to change their stories later.)
The girl who had a child to the coal black Kenyan student wasn’t Stanley Ann Dunham, she appears to have been a foreign student herself, renting a room at the Pratt/Dunham residence. And after her child was born in January 1961, she went to Seattle and rented a room at a boarding house managed by the famous baby-sitter, Mary.
Who just turns out to have been married at the time to a son of the man married to an aunt of the young actress named in the video...Mama Told Me There Would be Days Like This.
Truth is stranger than fiction. And never boring.