Mr Obama Sr had grown up in Kenya under British rule and aroused the fears of both colonial officers and American officials when he won a chance to study in Hawaii. The officials felt Kenyan students were âacademically inferiorâ with a âbad reputationâ for turning anti-American.
A memo from a British diplomat in Washington to Whitehall â released today by the National Archives in West London â sets out their concerns about the young Kenyans.
Dated September 1, 1959, it says: âI have discussed with the State Department. They are as disturbed about these developments as we are. They point out that Kenya students have a bad reputation over here for falling into the wrong hands and for becoming both anti-American and anti-white.â
In one of the Foreign Office files, the future presidentâs father appears on a list of Kenyan students as âOBAMA, Barack Hâ.
Mr Obama Sr was among 100 or so Kenyan students brought to America by the African American Students Foundation.
U.S. and British officials were deeply suspicious of this outfit, observing that the AASF â though backed by singer Harry Belafonte and actor Sidney Poitier â had links to a Kenyan nationalist leader.
âThe motives behind this enterprise, therefore, seem more political than educational,â warned a letter from the British Embassy in Washington.
It added: âThe arrival here of these students, many of them of indifferent academic calibre and ill-prepared for the venture, is likely to give rise to difficult problems.â
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A memo from a British diplomat in Washington to Whitehall â released today by the National Archives in West London â sets out their concerns about the young Kenyans.
Dated September 1, 1959, it says: âI have discussed with the State Department. They are as disturbed about these developments as we are. They point out that Kenya students have a bad reputation over here for falling into the wrong hands and for becoming both anti-American and anti-white.â
In one of the Foreign Office files, the future presidentâs father appears on a list of Kenyan students as âOBAMA, Barack Hâ.
Mr Obama Sr was among 100 or so Kenyan students brought to America by the African American Students Foundation.
U.S. and British officials were deeply suspicious of this outfit, observing that the AASF â though backed by singer Harry Belafonte and actor Sidney Poitier â had links to a Kenyan nationalist leader.
âThe motives behind this enterprise, therefore, seem more political than educational,â warned a letter from the British Embassy in Washington.
It added: âThe arrival here of these students, many of them of indifferent academic calibre and ill-prepared for the venture, is likely to give rise to difficult problems.â
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