While I agree that the Kenyan birth certificate in question is an obvious fake, the article here has some errors in debunking it.
Nowhere on the certificate occurs the phrase “Republic of Kenya,” so the argument that the phrase is inappropriate does not apply. The certificate says “British Protectorate of Kenya,” which is contextually correct. For example the official government Kenya Gazette from August, 1961 lists an address for an individual as “P O Box 2365, Mombasa, Kenya Protectorate.” This also goes to the argument that Mombasa was not part of Kenya. Kenya considered it theirs.The term “Coast Province” was in use in the same government document. The June 20, 1961 edition of the Kenya Gazette specifically mentions the “Coast Province General Hospital.”
While Dr. Ang’awa may not have been delivering babies in Mombasa in 1961, I have never seen this conclusively proven.
The two damning criticisms of the certificate are the date format, as your article points out, and the fact that the hospital administrator, Heltan Maganga, who supposedly signed the document was not the hospital administrator on the date it was supposedly signed (and his name is misspelled).
