Is Barack Obama a Kenyan citizen?

The Rocky Mountain News has reported (below) that Barack Obama “Holds both American and Kenyan (since 1963) citizenship.” Is this true? The Rocky Mountain News August 6, 2008. Entered Harvard Law School in 1988, was elected the first African–American editor of the Harvard Law Review. read more

As a citizen of the UKC who was born in Kenya, Obama’s father automatically received Kenyan citizenship via subsection (1). So given that Obama qualified for citizen of the UKC status at birth and given that Obama’s father became a Kenyan citizen via subsection (1), it follows that Obama did in fact have Kenyan citizenship after 1963. read more

Since President Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, he is an American citizen by birth. When Obama was born in 1961, Kenya was not a sovereign state but a British overseas possession. Because Obama's father was a citizen of a British colony, Obama had dual American-British colonial citizenship at birth. read more