Kenyans have just 15 months to clean up their act before fresh election campaigns scuttle the reform agenda, according to the man who saved the country from the brink. — Dr. Koffi Annan, Former U.N Secretary General
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said waiting any longer to carry out reforms that would guarantee equal wealth, check negative ethnicity, guarantee fairness in land ownership and utilization, would create a bad environment.
He says in the first of a series of special reports on this week’s Geneva conference to review progress in Kenya: “This is 2009 and some people are already campaigning such that by 2011, the environment will not be good for reforms. You have about 15 months for Parliament to push through reforms before the campaigns.” — [ READ MORE ]
Meanwhile Coalition “Bonding” Talks Collapsed This Weekend:
Sharp political differences, suspicion and grandstanding and vested interests Saturday led to the collapse of a meeting of political bigwigs called to discuss the management of the Grand Coalition Government.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga (Left), President Mwai Kibaki(Center) and V.P. Kalonzo Musyoka Meet At Kilaguni Lodge
The coalition management team chaired by President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga was unable to agree on the agenda of a meeting whose purpose was to agree on a timeline for reforms to be carried out in the second year of the political marriage.
So sharp were the differences that the President and the Prime Minister addressed separate and divergent news conferences in Kilaguni and Nairobi at the end of what was supposed to have been a bonding retreat to promote cohesion in government and Kenya.
“We did not storm out of the meeting; it simply did not take off,” Mr Odinga told reporters in Nairobi. “Unfortunately we were unable to agree on anything and, therefore, the meeting collapsed.” He said ODM party members would be consulted to determine a course of action.
The meeting rekindled the bitter rivalry between ODM and PNU reminiscent of the time prior to the signing of the National Accord in February 2008 that ended two months of post-election violence. — [ READ MORE ]
By calling the subjugated nations of the Luos, Somalis, and Oromos of Kenya merely “local populations”, by minimizing the importance and the dramatic nature of the events that take place in Eastern Africa, and by shifting the focus on secluded spots – called “exotic resorts” -, the Western mass media perpetrate a heinous act and a voluntary genocide against the subjugated nations of Kenya who struggle for national independence, cultural integrity, sociopolitical freedom, and economic self-determination. — Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis [ Enlarge ] The recent riots (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7935470.stm) in the Kenyan capital only highlight the impossibility of the artificial colonial state to continue existing.
Of course, had Somalia been a Christian state, Kenya would have never been created.
The colonial state of Kenya represents only the anti-Islamic need of criminal, heinous, racist and perfidious England to divide the Muslims of the Eastern Africa coast, and to segregate them in various fictional realms like Kenya and Tanzania whereby the Eastern African Muslims would miraculously be transformed into “minorities“.
In fact, Kenya cannot and will not exist as a unitary state in the same way Abyssinia, the world’s most criminal state, is doomed to collapse and get decomposed into many independent, national states.
The aforementioned does not necessarily imply that various Eastern African nations could not have formed diverse confederations whereby many different nations and peoples would coexist in peace and harmony; this could have been the case, had the various indigenous nations agreed in terms of parity, equity, and justice. However, this did not happen.
In the case of the infamous colonial fossil ‘Abyssinia’ (fallaciously re-baptized “Ethiopia”), there was a series of military invasions that always ended up in national and/or spiritual genocides (for the subdued Oromos, Afars, Sidamas, Ogadenis, Shekachos, Kaffas, Kambaatas, Hadiyas, Gedeos, Anuak, Nuer, Agaw, Shinasha, Berta and Gumuz).
In the case of the colonial territories of Kenya and Tanzania, the colonizers were Europeans (Portuguese, English and Germans); the colonial agreements between the English racist administration and selected tribal leaders, who – corrupt, bribed and besotted – accepted to play the shameful role of the local tyrant who is at the same time the shameful puppet of the colonial masters, helped establish tyrannical regimes that constitute a real hell for the outright majority of the subjugated nations.
By calling the subjugated nations of the Luos, Somalis, and Oromos of Kenya merely “local populations”, by minimizing the importance and the dramatic nature of the events that take place in Eastern Africa, and by shifting the focus on secluded spots – called “exotic resorts” -, the Western mass media perpetrate a heinous act and a voluntary genocide against the subjugated nations of Kenya who struggle for national independence, cultural integrity, sociopolitical freedom, and economic self-determination.
At the same time, the Western mass media bear witness to the Anti-Christian character of their endeavours, as they resonate lies, criminal falsehood, and deceit – only to serve the purposes of the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge that truly controls the Western establishments.
Only to be proven mendacious by the following reports of the leading humanitarian organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) that I republish here integrally.
There is only one sentence all the people of the world have to know about Kenya:
The will of the outright majority of the subjugated nations that have been entrapped in the Prison “Kenya” passionately desire to see the Kenyan state as soon as possible broken down to many pieces so that every indigenous nation be able to form their own nationhood. Democracy, freedom, and development will only then become feasible.
Lethal Force Against Students Protesting the Killing Underscores Need for Police Reform March 6
“When police enter a university campus with guns blazing, the need for urgent police reform and accountability is obvious”.
Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch
(New York) – The Kenyan government should immediately establish an independent investigation into the killings on March 5, 2009, of two prominent Kenyan human rights activists, Human Rights Watch said today. The police’s use of unnecessary lethal force against students protesting the killings, resulting in one student’s death, also highlights the need for the government to carry out promptly United Nations recommendations on police reform, Human Rights Watch said.
On the evening of March 5 near the University of Nairobi, unidentified gunmen blocked the car of Oscar Kamau Kingara and John Paul Oulu of the Oscar Foundation Free Legal Aid Clinic and shot them dead. The Oscar Foundation has frequently and publicly criticized the police for their participation in extrajudicial killings and other serious abuses, most recently before parliament in February 2009.
“The murder of two activists long critical of police abuses demands an inquiry that is not under the control of the police,” said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “An independent inquiry is the only way to reach the truth and ensure justice for this horrible crime.”
Following the killings, several hundred University of Nairobi students held a demonstration protesting the killings that evening. Demonstrators told Human Rights Watch that they believed the government was responsible for the attack. Students took the bullet-riddled car and the body of Kingara onto campus, refusing to surrender his body to police. A standoff ensued between a large contingent of police who demanded that the body be handed over and the angry, but largely peaceful, demonstrators.
After negotiations broke down, Human Rights Watch witnessed scores of police officers storming the campus using tear gas and firing live ammunition. Students retaliated by throwing stones at the police. As the police pursued students carrying Kingara’s body across the campus, gunfire became more and more frequent.
Human Rights Watch observed some officers firing into the air, but one student was shot dead by the police. The police confirmed the student’s death in a statement today concluding that the use of lethal force was “unprofessional and uncalled for,” and noting that three officers who used live ammunition at the protest are “under investigation.”
In policing demonstrations, the Kenyan police should abide by the United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, Human Rights Watch said. The principles call upon law enforcement officials to apply nonviolent means before resorting to the use of force, to use force only in proportion to the seriousness of the offense, and to use lethal force only when strictly unavoidable to protect life.
Human Rights Watch called on the Kenyan government to implement immediately the recommendations for police reform proposed by Kenyan Justice Philip Nyamu Waki, head of an independent commission that investigated post-election violence in 2008, and those by Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extra-judicial killings.
Those recommendations include a public acknowledgement by President Mwai Kibaki of the problem of extrajudicial killings, the need for sweeping reform of the police, the setting-up of an independent police oversight board, the replacement of both the police commissioner and the attorney general, and the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute those responsible for post-election violence, including victims of police lethal force.
“When police enter a university campus with guns blazing, the need for urgent police reform and accountability is obvious,” said Gagnon. “Kenyans need a police force that protects their rights, not one that abuses them.”
Background
In 2007 the Oscar Foundation published a report on extrajudicial killings by the Kenyan police, “License to kill: Extrajudicial execution and police brutality in Kenya.” The Oscar Foundation activists had also testified to Parliament in early 2009 on extrajudicial killings.
The killings of Kingara and Oulu came on a day of heightened tensions over the February 2009 report of UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial killings Philip Alston into extra-judicial killings in Kenya. Alston’s report concluded that, “the Kenyan police are a law unto themselves and they kill often and with impunity.”
Weeks before, Alston had met with Kingara and Oulu, among others, to collect evidence of police killings of alleged members of the Mungiki sect, a religious group that has turned into a criminal organization. Members and sympathizers of the Mungiki had held demonstrations across Nairobi and the town of Naivasha earlier on in the day when Kingara and Oulu were killed.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga responded to the killings of Kingara and Oulu with a statement today saying that the police are suspects in these killings and asserting the need for an independent agency to carry out an investigation.
Lift Ban on Public Rallies, Media Broadcasts January 12, 2008
The Kenyan government should urgently and publicly order the police to stop using excessive, lethal force against public rallies, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch urged political leaders on all sides to call on supporters to demonstrate peacefully.
Opposition leaders have called for rallies next week in defiance of the government’s broad ban on public gatherings, prompting concerns that new clashes could result in further deaths and injuries. Human Rights Watch is also concerned by ongoing violence in the Rift Valley, where hundreds of people have died and hundreds of thousands have been displaced.
“Kenyan security forces have a duty to rein in criminal violence and should protect people, but they shouldn’t turn their weapons on peaceful protestors,” said Georgette Gagnon, acting Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “The government should make it very clear that police will be held to account for using lethal force against people for simply expressing political views.”
Since the disputed December 27, 2007 presidential elections, Kenyan police in several cities have used live ammunition to disperse protesters and disperse looters, killing and wounding dozens. Some observers and even police have described the police response as an unofficial “shoot to kill” policy. For example, Human Rights Watch received credible reports that in Kisumu dozens of people were shot dead by police while demonstrating against the election result announced on December 31.
Even people who did not attend rallies have been affected. Human Rights Watch spoke to eyewitnesses in Nairobi who saw unarmed individuals hit by police gunfire on the fringes of protests in the Kibera and Mathare slums. One woman was hit by stray bullets that penetrated the wall of her home. Another unarmed man was shot in the leg. A boy watching a protest from the door of his house was shot in the chest. Kenyan human rights organizations reported deaths and injuries involving police in the cities of Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, and Eldoret.
A source within the police, who was unwilling to be identified, told Human Rights Watch that “many of us are unhappy with what we are being asked to do. This ’shoot to kill’ policy is illegal, and it is not right. We have brothers and sisters, sons and daughters out there.”
In policing demonstrations, the Kenyan police should abide by the United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, Human Rights Watch said. The principles call upon law enforcement officials to apply nonviolent means before resorting to the use of force only in proportion to the seriousness of the offense, and to use lethal force only when strictly unavoidable to protect life.
Kenyan and international law prohibits a general ban on demonstrations. Under Kenyan law, those wishing to demonstrate must notify the police and the police can reject the request on the grounds of public order, but no law permits the authorities to impose a blanket ban on public assembly. Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Kenya ratified in 1976, a state may only impose restrictions on the right to peaceful assembly that are strictly necessary to maintain public order.
“The government should defuse tension by immediately lifting the ban on public assembly and allowing the planned demonstrations to go ahead,” said Gagnon. “The right to peaceful assembly is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy.”
The government has also banned live political broadcasting. Human Rights Watch again urged the Kenyan authorities to immediately lift unnecessary restrictions on media freedom.
Human Rights Watch also called on the government to immediately investigate the deaths that have already occurred during protests and in the Rift Valley. Prosecutions should be carried out where there is evidence of wrongdoing and the victims should be provided an adequate remedy, including compensation.
Background
Kenyans voted peacefully and in record numbers in parliamentary and presidential elections on December 27. In the parliamentary elections, 99 of the 210 seats were won by the opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). Vice-President Moody Awori and 14 of President Mwai Kibaki’s top ministers lost their seats.
The presidential election pitted Kibaki against the ODM’s Raila Odinga, and the presidential vote count appeared to be tampered with. The chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya said that he did “not know whether Mr. Kibaki won the elections.” The European Union Electoral Mission also expressed grave doubts about the legitimacy of the presidential results.
Talks between the opposition and the Kibaki government have not yet occurred and the opposition is planning for further mass action across the country on January 16, 2008. Further violence is expected as the government has indicated it will attempt to prevent the demonstrations from occurring.
Violence has spread throughout the Rift Valley and the west of the country as angry citizens have burnt and looted factories, shops and homes and chased away those perceived to be supporters of Kibaki (mostly, but not exclusively, members of his Kikuyu tribe). Kikuyu homes in the Rift Valley have been selectively burned and Kikuyu residents killed. Thirty people were burned to death in a church near Eldoret. According to media reports, the mortuary in Eldoret contains 290 bodies killed as a result of the violence, and Kisumu has 91. Nationwide, government figures put the death toll at 486 but independent estimates range as high as 600.
Note: A customary scenery in the streets of Kenya that does not usually find its way to the leading circulation newspapers in Europe, England and America, probably because Kenyan slums are not considered as ….. Kenya by the colonial establishmnets. From: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/17/2141084.htm
No, President Obama, you owe us nothing. You must not worry yourself over our ‘cargo cult mentality‘. Prof Achebe taught us how to say ‘Yes we can‘ even before you were born. And he was only 22. But we love free things. We therefore do nothing for ourselves. Don’t let us bother you. It is up to Africans to liberate themselves from greed and laziness and from the thieves and dictators they call leaders. It is up to them to fix their countries.
Prof Chinua Achebe wrote his world famous novel, Things Fall Apart, when he was only a 22-year-old youth. He sent his only copy of the handwritten manuscript to a London based typist, who misplaced it for some time. Eventually, in the late 1950s, the original script found its way to William Heinemann, then famed for literary publishing.
While Alan Hill, the editor, thought that this was the best manuscript he had read since the end of the Second World War in 1945, he was not so sure that he should publish it. For, who would read a story from Africa, about Africa, by an African? But courage and hope took precedence. Some 2,000 copies were published in 1958. Things Fall Apart has since been translated into close to 50 languages. The English edition alone has sold millions of copies worldwide.
In an interview with John Pepper Clark in the collection African Writers Talking, Prof Achebe said: ‘I was quite certain that I was going to try my hand at writing.’ And in Hopes and Impediments, he says, ‘At the university, I read some appalling novels about Africa (including Joyce Cary’s much praised Mr Johnson) and decided that the story we had to tell could not be told for us by anyone else, no matter how gifted or well intentioned. Although I did not set about it consciously in that solemn way, I now know that my first book, Things Fall Apart, was an act of atonement with my past.’
For a 22-year-old African youth to hope that he could publish a novel in colonial Africa was to be truly audacious. For him to believe that he could in fact do a better job than a European writer was to go beyond the audacity of hope. Yet it was Achebe who wrote in Things Fall Apart, ‘But the Ibo people have a saying that when a man says “Yes (I can)” his chi (guardian angel, or personal God) says “Yes” also.’ Achebe dared hope. And in our times, we are witnesses to what the audacity of hope can do, with the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th American President.
Tragically, that is just about how far we can go. We can only look at others as they do great things. In another book, The Trouble with Nigeria, Prof Achebe talks of Africa’s cargo cult mentality. This is our belief that one day, and without any effort on our part, a fairy ship loaded with goods will dock at our harbour of hope and that we will live happily for ever thereafter. Nothing demonstrates this cultic mentality than our untamed expectations of the Obama presidency.
Fanny Crosby, President Kibaki, Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Chinua Achebe — ‘Yes we can’,
Everywhere on the continent, and especially in Kenya, we have gone wild. In the words of Fanny Crosby, we are ‘watching and waiting, looking above‘ for manna from America. Even African heads of State and Government give a start each time the phone rings. Their hands tremble as they lift the receiver. They hope it is a call from the White House. The day they get their first call from President Obama, they will call the Press to announce to the world that the big man has spoken to them. It is hard to believe that a people could sink so low, complete with what are called their leaders.
When the children sing lavishly about the father of some other house, you don’t join them. For, it is your own fatherhood that is in question. It ought to worry you when they claim kinship with the other gentleman. If you were father enough, you would do something to restore your reputation, lest another man should pitch his tent in the little chamber in which your fatherhood counts most. Why, pray, should those in whom a people have invested its leadership shamelessly peddle their inferiority in the chilly streets of foreign capital cities?
After the fanfare, the razzmatazz, and VIP idling in Washington dance halls, Kenya requires a reality check. Obama is the US President and we do well to wish him well. But he will not fix our problems. If President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga and their train cannot fix our problems, then we must all sink with them. Meanwhile we must pity our youth. Where is the audacity of your hope? Even our best youth waste away in night clubs, drowning themselves in alcohol, wallowing in tobacco and dead meats. They watch and cheer as their age mates do wonders on TV. Where decent young men used to dance with ladies, ours swing on the floor with bottles of alcohol. They don’t read, they don’t hold quality debate, they don’t dream, they don’t hope. At election time they jump on to the tribal bandwagon.
No, President Obama, you owe us nothing. You must not worry yourself over our cargo cult mentality. Prof Achebe taught us how to say ‘Yes we can‘ even before you were born. And he was only 22. But we love free things. We therefore do nothing for ourselves. Don’t let us bother you. It is up to Africans to liberate themselves from greed and laziness and from the thieves and dictators they call leaders. It is up to them to fix their countries. Meanwhile here is wishing you well. God bless you. God bless Africa.
————————————————————————————————— About The Author: Barrack Muluka is a publishing editor and a media consultant with Mvule Africa Publishers. okwa...@yahoo.com
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The Kogelo village and the Obama family have undergone a complete metamorphosis, literally. A second bull and several goats and sheep were slaughtered on Thursday as celebrations entered the third night. The Kenya Power and Lighting Company workers have connected power to the village, which has never had any electricity.
The change was evident immediately after the man whose roots are in the village became the leader of the world’s most powerful nation, the United States of America.
Kenya Power and Lighting Company workers connect the village of Kogelo to the mains on Thursday
The President-Elects First Press Conference, Friday
Talking to Mr Barack Obama, according to his brother and family spokesperson, Mr Malik Abong’o was an ordinary affair before Thursday.
Everyone’s lips
‘We spoke last night, he told us he was doing great. He was happy that we are fine. We congratulated him and wished him well in the new challenges that come with the presidency,’ said the first born son of the Obama family.
Although grandmother Sarah Onyango Obama did not speak to the media on Thursday, all she could say to visitors who had come to congratulate her was ‘Nyasaye duong‘ (God is great).
And despite the rainy day and the muddy paths, the once sleepy village hosted thousands of visitors on Thursday, driven by a curiosity to see the roots of the man whose name is on everyone’s lips.
The world spotlight is firmly on the hitherto sleepy village because President-elect Obama’s late father, Mr Barack Obama Snr, was born here.
According to Luo customs, a child belongs to the father, hence the strong bonds of kinship to the American president-elect in Western Kenya.
A second bull and several goats and sheep were slaughtered on Thursday as celebrations entered the third night.
And one of Prime Minister Raila Odinga aides, Mr Samuel Aduol delivered five bulls from his boss with a congratulatory message that he (the PM) would be visiting soon.
Busloads of students and curious visitors from as far as Tanzania and Uganda drove to the village, with some bearing gifts for the family.
American nationals in Kenya also thronged the home in what they described as an encounter with the roots of the man who now holds the world’s destiny in his hands.
Although the Obama family said on Thursday that they would not like to be treated differently, the signs point to the fact that they are no longer simple villagers.
‘We can no longer account for who is who in the home — people danced the night away and today’s holiday gave many an opportunity to come to the home,’ said Mr Abong’o.
Before Wednesday, the road leading to the homestead was a bumpy path that was a driver’s nightmare whenever it rained. But by Thursday, it had miraculously been cleared and levelled.
Fresh coat of paint
Kenya Power and Lighting Company was expected to have connected electricity by Thursday night. This is a complete contrast to the situation when Mr Obama visited three years ago.
Then, Mama Sarah lived in a semi-permanent house which has since been rebuilt and is sparkling from a fresh coat of paint.
The compound, which was surrounded with indigenous shrubs, has since been fenced and boasts a police post manned 24 hours a day by eight officers.
The police were deployed to the home after thieves tried to steal the family’s solar panel.
Siaya District Commissioner Boaz Cherutich on Thursday said that security had been beefed up to cope with the influx of visitors.
The main road passing through the village to Bondo town, which was until last week no more than a dusty and bumpy path, has undergone major repairs in what Mr Abong’o last week said was just but a sign of things to come.
Not shed light
The family draws water from a well at the corner of the homestead but in the new scheme of things, this is likely to be a thing of the past.
The nearby Nyang’mo Kogelo secondary school acquired the name Senator Obama Secondary School soon after Mr Obama was elected to the US senate.
School officials could not shed light on whether the name would be changing to President Barack Obama High School.
The village has suddenly become the most well known in the Western Kenya region, if not in the world, as visitors come from near and far to see the home and the people from whose lineage came the first African-American president.
References:
1.Take a Bow, America — We still have two wars to deal with and a severe economic crisis. But we should not lose sight of the profound significance of this week.
This piece of garbage had the gal to go to Kenya to promote his lies, bigotry and Republican swift-boat racism!! Jinga Huyu! — A few lashes at Kamiti Maximum Prison would have been very appropriate. After all that’s what his cousins, the despicable colonial Brits used to do to Kenyans before the country achieved independence in the early sixties.
Immigration officer Dume Wanda (right) leads Dr Jerome Corsi, the WorldNetDaily writer and author of The Obama Nation, to a waiting security vehicle at Laico Regency hotel, on Tuesday.
Jerome Corsi was arrested shortly after 8a.m. just as he was about to address a news conference to launch his anti-Obama book in Nairobi.
He was taken to the Immigration headquarters at Nyayo House and later deported on the British Airways midnight flight out of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
He was due to launch the book, which depicts Mr Obama, whose father was Kenyan, as a sympathizer of radical Islam and communism, at the Laico Regency Hotel.
But he was arrested there before he could speak and driven with an assistant, Mr Timothy M. Bueler, to Nyayo House, around 500 metres away.
The Immigration officials also impounded copies of the Obama book.
At Nyayo House, the two were held for four hours and questioned by officials led by the Director of Immigration, Mr Albert Musasia, about his presence in Kenya.
The decision to deport him was made after it emerged that Dr Corsi and Mr Bueler had entered the country as tourists, stating they intended to visit game parks.
The book launch was a commercial venture, therefore, they had contravened their immigration status.
After questioning, the two were taken to the office of the Permanent Secretary, Mr Emmanuel Kisombe, and from there through the basement to a car in which they were driven to the house where Dr Corsi had been staying in Runda for verification of his passport and visa before they were escorted to the airport.
There he and his aide were held in the Immigration office to await their flight out of the country.
A US embassy official said they were not told officially about the arrests, saying they had learnt about them from the media.
The official said Dr Corsi’s was a private individual’s visit and did not warrant comment from the embassy since he was not a US government official.
Questioned
Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe commented later that the two US citizens were summoned by the Immigration department to be questioned on the status of their stay in the country.
He also said that they had chosen to fly out of the country voluntarily after being questioned.
Dr Corsi flew into Kenya last Tuesday and was booked to stay at the Laico Regency (formerly Grand Regency) at 7.55am, although hotel communications manager Jenifer Wanza said he had been staying in Runda.
Dr Corsi was expected to stay at the hotel for one month.
General manager Solomon Adede later issued a statement distancing the hotel from the planned news conference, scheduled to take place at the Bogoria room.
He said the management would not allow such a function, and added: ‘Laico Regency is a law-abiding institution and does not condone any smear campaigns.‘
He said the booking for the Press conference had been made by Mr Peter Mbae, editor-in-chief of The Eagle Christian magazine.
NTV Kenya — Obama smear author deported
Mr Mbae founded the newspaper and has played an active role in religious organisations. Posters that were announcing the news conference were quickly pulled down at the hotel.
Kenya features prominently in Dr Corsi’s book, The Obama Nation, which has been seen primarily as a vehicle to run a smear campaign against Mr Obama.
Dr Corsi states early in the book that Kenya will play a key part in his account because ‘Barack Obama himself tells us that Kenya is an important part of who he is, even today.’
But the book has been widely criticised for containing many inaccuracies and distortions.
When it was released, Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said: ‘Jerome Corsi is a discredited liar who is peddling another piece of garbage to continue the Bush-Cheney politics he helped perpetuate four years ago.‘
Similar attacks were published about former presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton during their campaigns to reach the White House.
Perhaps significantly both went on to win the presidency.
Dr Corsi, a well-known right-wing author, used Prime Minister Raila Odinga as a means of attacking Mr Obama on the two fronts of radical Islam and communism.
The Prime Minister, portrayed as a close associate of Mr Obama, is described as ‘a Muslim sympathizer with well-known communist political roots.”
Obama’s father
The book suggests that Mr Odinga might be a Muslim, even though, as it admits, he ‘today professes to be an Anglican.”
The book also attacks Obama’s father Mr Barack Obama Snr, who came from Siaya in Nyanza Province and who died in 1982, referring to him as ‘an alcoholic polygamist‘ and a Muslim who gravitated to the ‘more extreme communist position openly advocated by and identified with Oginga Odinga.‘
The book distorts Mr Obama’s political views and associations — often by means of inaccuracies — in an attempt to destroy his image as a new-style politician able to bridge cultural, racial and ideological divides.
Immigration officer Dume Wanda (right) leads Dr Jerome Corsi, the WorldNetDaily writer and author of 
