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CGI 2015 Winter Meeting - Agenda | Clinton Foundation

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Leslie Harwell, Vice President, Social and Sustainable Finance, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jake Kheel, Environment Director, Grupo Puntacana P.J. Marshall …

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/press-releases/president-clinton-secretary-clinton-announce-29-new-projects-resiliency-and-disaster

For immediate release: June 4, 2019

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President Clinton, Secretary Clinton Announce 29 New Projects for Resiliency and Disaster Recovery at Clinton Foundation Meeting in St. Thomas

Following visits to St. Croix and St. John to advance recovery projects, President Clinton and Secretary Clinton convened over 400 international leaders at the fourth CGI Action Network meeting at the University of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas

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Full details of the 86 Commitments to Action made through the Action Network can be found at https://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative/commitments

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Theodore W. Kheel - WikiVisually

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Kheel was one of the principals in Tom Mboya's efforts of the late 50s and early ….. and hotelier Frank Rainieri and Theodore Kheel, a New York labor lawyer.

https://www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Retracing-Tom-Mboya-s-last-days/1064-4640002-s63h8qz/index.html

His assassination caused anger and anxiety among the public, with many demanding to know its instigators. This frustration swelled up in Parliament on July 16, 1969 when MPs demanded to know why no arrests had been made.

Unknown to the MPs, Nahashon Njenga had already been arrested and was “helping the police with investigations”. He told the officers that he had bought the weapon from a Kisii man called Jimmy at Sh500.

At one time, he said he was acting on orders of the “big man.”

https://www.sde.co.ke/thenairobian/article/2000169489/how-obama-s-father-witnessed-tom-mboya-s-murder

President Uhuru Kenyatta will meet President Barack Obama. Interestingly, their fathers’ lives were entangled in power play in the 1960s. Back then, both Uhuru and Obama were infants, and so was Kenya as an independent country where the life of Barack Obama Sr (pictured), a bright economist was complicated for three reasons.

One, he criticised the economic policies of President Kenyatta . Two, he openly ranted how he would have made a better governor of Central Bank of Kenya. Three, and most important but least discussed, Obama Sr witnessed the assassination of Tom Mboya in July 1969.

That he even gave police the name of Mboya’s assassin further muddled his image in the eyes of those keen on covering up the murder of the most ambitious politician of his day. In the bio, The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama’s Father, published in 2011, Sally Jacobs, informs us that Obama Sr met Mboya at Channi’s Pharmacy on July 5, 1969. Mboya had just returned from a summit in Ethiopia. Obama Sr joked how Mboya had parked the car wrongly and thus risked getting a ticket from the City Council.

Mboya laughed and walked into the pharmacy, only to begunned down by Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge, whowas later hanged at Kamiti Prison on ‘orders from above’that saw to it that no priest performed the last rites onhim. Obama Sr told a friend how he gave Njenga’s nameand description to the police. During Njeng’as hasty trial, Obama Sr was the final prosecution witness, notes Jacobs.

Njenga, who had received military training in Europe was often used as a bodyguard by politicians and when questioned on the murder, he replied: “Why don’t you go after the big man?”

Obama Sr obtained a First Class Honours at the University of Hawaii and was awarded a scholarship to pursue a PhD at Harvard. He was later deported for fooling around with white women.

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The president of the World Bank Mr George Woods (left) and the Kenya Minister for Planning and Economic Development Mr Tom Mboya in the early 1960s. PHOTO

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Tom was usually a stoic guy,” recalled Frank Montero, one of the organisers of the student airlifts to the United States in the early 1960s.

The third American in the room was William X Scheinman, who funded the first airlift.

Two months after returning from the US, Mboya told his friend, Sir Michael Blundell, about the frustration he was undergoing in government.

He thought of resigning as a minister for a job at the United Nations headquarters, but Sir Michael urged him to stay on since he was still young. Two weeks later, on July 5, he was shot dead as he stood in the doorway of Chani’s Chemists on Government Road, now Moi Avenue in Nairobi.

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William X. Scheinman, seated second from right, with Tom Mboya, third from right in Accra Ghana in 1958. (William X. Scheinman Papers, Hoover Institution Archives)

https://news.stanford.edu/thedish/2010/01/27/4319/

The Hoover Institution Library and Archives have opened the papers of William X. Scheinman (1927–1999), a longtime friend of and correspondent with Kenyan independence leader Tom Mboya, who served in the first cabinet of Kenya after that East African nation achieved independence from Great Britain in 1963. The highlight of the collection is the rich correspondence between Scheinman and Mboya, which contains hundreds of letters, beginning in 1957 and ending with Mboya’s assassination in 1969

http://africanactivist.msu.edu/organization.php?name=African+American+Students+Foundation

AASF was founded by William X. Scheinman who served on the board. Frank Montero and Ted Kheel were also on the board of AASF. Cora Weiss was Executive Director and student adviser. AASF sponsoring organizations included the American Committee on Africa and the Phelps Stokes Fund. Students included Wangari Maathai who later became the first African women Nobel Peace laureate. Barack Obama Sr, father of 44th President of the United States, did not come on one of the planes charted by the African American Students Foundation but did receive financial support from the foundation once he was in the U.S. See Airlift to America: How Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours by Tom Shachtman (St. Martin's Press, September 2009

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/books/review/Letters-t-FROMKENYATOA_LETTERS.html

From Kenya to America

MAY 7, 2010

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To the Editor:

I would like to add to the account of the airlift of African students mentioned by Barack Obama in his speech at Selma in 2007 and described in Garry Wills’s review of “The Bridge” (April 11).

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March 21, 1966 - Tom Mboya, Kenya's Minister of Economic at President John F. Kennedy's grave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kennedy_Airlift

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The Kennedy Airlift occurred in 1959 and 1960 and saw hundreds of east Africans get scholarships to study in the US. It was arranged by Tom Mboya and Senator John F. Kennedy.[1]

Contents

1 Background

2 Legacy

3 Notable Beneficiaries

4 Barack Obama Snr

5 References

Background[edit]

The program began in earnest in 1959 when Mboya embarked on a speaking tour of the United States seeking scholarships for students from East Africa. The first batch of students, 81 in total, touched down on New York City in September 11 1959. These students would be settled in various universities in the United States and Canada. In Kenya, Mboya liaised with Julius Kiano and Kariuki Njiiri to identify potential students for the airlifts. Kiano and Njiiri were both alumni of American universities [2]

The airlifts were opposed by Britain. Kenya was Britain's colony and Britain did not want America meddling with any of its colonies. British officials spread propaganda amongst top Kenyan students that American education was inferior to British education.

Legacy[edit]

The airlifts officially ended in 1963. Most of the graduates from American and Canadian colleges and universities went back to help build the newly independent Kenya. Some were employed even before they graduated. They were mainly employed in the public administration sector as district and provincial officers. While men found it easy to get jobs they qualified for, women faced a tougher challenge. Many were offered secretarial duties despite being better qualified than most male officers in the same departments.

Notable Beneficiaries[edit]

Over 800 students, mainly from Kenya, benefited from the Kennedy Airlift. Some of the more notable ones include:

Pamela Odede Mboya

Wangari Maathai

Prof Reuben Olembo

Perez Olindo

Phillip Ochieng

Owino Okongo

Barack Obama Snr[edit]

Contrary to some media reports, Barack Obama Snr, Barack Obama's father, was not a beneficiary of the airlifts. [3] He received private funding to attend the University of Hawaii. He is, however, considered part of the 'airlift generation'.

References[edit]

^ "JFK and the Student Airlift". John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved 27 October 2016.

^ http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/Airlifts-to-the-US-The-first-Kenyans-to-study-in-America/434746-3472918-8ak1w4/index.html

^ https://www.thenation.com/article/african-airlift/

https://www.npr.org/2011/07/11/137553552/president-obamas-father-a-bold-and-reckless-life

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Blacks were very few in number in Honolulu and he was the first African student at the University of Hawaii."

Meeting Stanley Ann Dunham

A year after Obama Sr. enrolled at the university, he met Stanley Ann Dunham, a 17-year-old from Kansas who was studying Russian.

Obama Sr. told Dunham that he had divorced Kezia Aoko, his wife in Africa, but that wasn't true. He also did not reveal that he had had two children with Aoko, who, like Obama Sr., was a member of the Luo ethnic group.

If Obama the president had had [Barack Obama Sr.] as a father, I think it's fair to say that he wouldn't be the president.

Biographer Sally H. Jacobs

"The thing you have to understand about this is that it was deeply rooted in Luo culture," says Jacobs. "Divorce wasn't common.

Later on, Obama Sr. told immigration officials that he thought of himself as divorced in Kenya before he arrived in the United States. Jacobs says that Obama Sr.'s immigration files also show that Obama Sr. and Dunham may have considered putting President Obama up for adoption before he was born

"Obama [Sr.] makes it less than a year," says Jacobs. "He wasn't fired exactly, but he was not asked back. So he left Shell and gets another potentially terrific job — this one at the Central Bank of Kenya. Again, he runs into trouble within months. He shows up late, he drinks on the job, he has to borrow money and he is asked to leave."

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Sally H. Jacobs has been a reporter for more than 30 years, most recently with The Boston Globe. She specializes in political reporting and profiles.

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Obama Sr. returned to the U.S. in 1971 because his life was falling apart. A third wife was planning to leave him, he had no job and he had suffered massive injuries in a car accident. He spent a short amount of time with his son Barack Jr. in Hawaii and then returned to Kenya, where a second car crash cost him his legs. In 1982, Obama Sr. was in a third car accident and died from his injuries.

Only his firstborn son, Abong'o Malik Obama, a volatile fifty-three-year-old who lives with his three wives near the family's compound in western Kenya, has not written a book about his father—at least not yet.

Malik recently made headlines of his own when he took a nineteen-year old schoolgirl as his third wife. He has also irritated some Obama family members when he built a small mosque on his property that the steady parade of tourists heading to the Obama compound pass daily. Some Obamas worry that such a glaring symbol of the family's Muslim faith will negatively impact the Obama presidency. Malik has accused others of trying to profit from his father's life and says that he intends eventually to write the definitive biography of his father himself.