{"id":2231,"date":"2013-02-17T05:30:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T09:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2013-02-18T18:52:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T22:52:21","slug":"typography-act-four-the-life-story-of-a-kenya-chief-dr-conspiracy-please-stop-throwing-chess-pieces-at-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/typography-act-four-the-life-story-of-a-kenya-chief-dr-conspiracy-please-stop-throwing-chess-pieces-at-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Typography, Act Four: The Life-Story of a Kenya Chief. (Dr. Conspiracy please stop throwing chess pieces at me)."},"content":{"rendered":"

The book, <\/span>The Life-Story of a Kenya Chief : The Life of Chief Kasina Ndoo<\/span><\/em> (as told to J.B. Carson), was published and printed in the year 1958.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book appears to have been published by London Evans Brothers Limited in Association with the East African Literature Bureau.\u00a0 The physical printing and binding appears to have been conducted in England by Hazell Watson and Viney Ltd Aylesbury and Slough.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book itself is somewhat rare and the only online locale or vendor, that I can find, presently selling the book is Amazon.com.\u00a0\u00a0 Amazon member FREDRICK MUTOONI is offering the book for $300.00 US dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n

I own the book (no, I did not buy Mutooni’s) and have it in my personal possession.\u00a0 Mine is, however, missing all of chapter three, or pages 23 thru 26.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book itself contains, at least, 433 words which exhibit examples of kerning in which ascenders<\/strong><\/em><\/span> (the part of a letter that extends above the main part such as the tops of b,d,f,h,k and l) hang over an adjacent letter.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book itself contains, at least, 29 words which exhibit examples of kerning in which descenders<\/strong><\/em><\/span> (the part of a letter that extends below the level of its base such as the bottoms of g,j,y,q and p) hang under an adjacent letter.<\/span><\/p>\n

In my previous report, Typography, Act Three: ascenders and descenders. (Definitive proof that Dr. Conspiracy is full of ordure).<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>, I offered what I called the ‘Obot\/Birther Challenge’. Two groups of words were provided. One group was called ‘ascenders’ and another group was called ‘descenders’.<\/span><\/p>\n

I asked participants to tell me whether or not each word, individually, contained an example (or examples) of kerning in which the ascenders hung over adjacent letter and descenders under adjacent letters.\u00a0 It appears that only two individuals posted their findings and those individuals were Bruce<\/strong> [Steadman] and Gordon<\/strong> (I don’t think he is Gordon Epperly but I suppose it is possible).<\/span><\/p>\n

Bruce and Gordon both concurred that the sort kerning described above could be observed in all of the words and in both of the groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bruce and Gordon are, indeed, categorically correct.<\/span><\/p>\n

The words, in both groups, were scanned from the book, <\/span>The Life-Story of a Kenya Chief : The Life of Chief Kasina Ndoo<\/span><\/em>, which was printed and bound in the year 1958, approximately three (3) years before Barack Hussein Obama II’s Coast Province General Hospital (CPGH), Mombasa, British Protectorate of Kenya, Certificate of Birth (1961) was issued.<\/span><\/p>\n

A couple of years ago Dr. Conspiracy wrote, with the aid of a furtive and seemingly delusive and self-proclaimed pressman (calls himself \u201cSean\u201d and has a friend named \u201cHowling Coyote\u201d) with a\u00a0curriculum vitae supposedly dating to the 1950s, that Obama\u2019s 1961 CPGH Kenyan certificate of birth is a forgery on grounds that the document contains, in their opinion, an example of kerning in which the descender of the letter y<\/strong><\/em> hangs under the letter n<\/strong><\/em> in the word Kenya<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the position of Dr. Conspiracy, \u2018Sean\u2019 and \u2018Howling Coyote\u2019 that such kerning was not yet possible in 1961. \u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Conspiracy\u2019s cowplops (03.15.2011 & 03.19.2011) are linked directly below:<\/span><\/p>\n

Typography on the Lucas Smith Kenyan birth certificate<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Typography on the Lucas Smith Kenyan birth certificate \u2013 2nd half<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The kerning in question was that of the<\/span> y<\/strong><\/em> and the<\/span> n<\/strong><\/em> in<\/span> Kenya<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"Kenya<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure whether or not the descender of the<\/span> y<\/strong><\/em> really does, or doesn\u2019t, hang under the<\/span> n<\/strong><\/em> in the<\/span> Kenya<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 The document is a 2009 certified copy of an original 1961 document and is, to some extent, blurry and askew.\u00a0\u00a0 It could go either way I suppose, 50\/50.<\/span><\/p>\n

What I have ascertained though is that Dr. Conspiracy and the furtive and self-proclaimed pressman\/men had nearly absolutely no idea what they were talking about.<\/span><\/p>\n

Examples of kerning<\/span> in which descenders hang under adjacent letter are exhibited in Chief Kasina Ndoo’s book, which was printed in 1958, and are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 7. \u00a0 <\/span>Major<\/span><\/span>-General Sir Edward Northey \u00a0 (a-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 11.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Queen<\/span><\/span> and the Duke of Edinburgh\u00a0\u00a0 (Q-u)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 11.\u00a0\u00a0 King George and the <\/span>Queen<\/span><\/span> Mother\u00a0\u00a0 (Q-u)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 17.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>nyama<\/span><\/span> yangu\u00a0\u00a0 (lower case) \u00a0 <\/span>(n-y)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 19. <\/span>\u00a0 Major<\/span><\/span> Montgomery\u00a0\u00a0 (a-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 19.<\/span> \u00a0 Major<\/span><\/span> Montgomery\u00a0\u00a0 (a-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 19.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 Bajun<\/span><\/span> girl\u00a0\u00a0 (a-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 20.\u00a0\u00a0 Major \u00a0 (a-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 21.\u00a0\u00a0 Ujiji<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 (U-j)\u00a0\u00a0 (i-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 21.\u00a0\u00a0 uji \u00a0 (lower case)\u00a0\u00a0 (u-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 21.\u00a0\u00a0 Sergeant-<\/span>Major<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 (a-j)<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Page 21.\u00a0\u00a0 Wajir\u00a0\u00a0 (a-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 21.\u00a0\u00a0 Sergeant-<\/span>Major<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 (a-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 22.\u00a0\u00a0 Wajir<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 (a-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 22.\u00a0\u00a0 Major\u00a0\u00a0 (a-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 27.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 Major<\/span><\/span>-General Moorhead \u00a0 (a-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 27.\u00a0\u00a0 Deputy<\/span> Adjutant<\/span><\/span>-General<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 (d-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 29.\u00a0\u00a0 major (lower case)\u00a0\u00a0 (a-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 33.\u00a0\u00a0 Coronation of Princess Elizabeth as<\/span> Queen<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 (Q-u)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 34.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 Major<\/span><\/span> Goldsworthy\u00a0\u00a0 (a-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 35.\u00a0\u00a0 God save the<\/span> Queen<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 (Q-u)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 35.\u00a0\u00a0 Queen\u00a0\u00a0 (Q-u)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 36.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Queen<\/span><\/span> of Tonga\u00a0\u00a0 (Q-u)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 36.\u00a0\u00a0 Queen\u00a0\u00a0 (Q-u)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 36.\u00a0\u00a0 Queen\u00a0\u00a0 (Q-u)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 37.\u00a0\u00a0 Queen\u00a0\u00a0 (Q-u)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 39.\u00a0\u00a0 rejoin\u00a0\u00a0 (lower case)\u00a0\u00a0 (e-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 44.\u00a0\u00a0 injured\u00a0\u00a0 (lower case)\u00a0\u00a0 (n-j)<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 44.\u00a0\u00a0 kibuyu\u00a0\u00a0 (lower case)\u00a0\u00a0 (u-y)<\/span><\/p>\n

Examples, found in more than 400 words, of kerning in which ascenders hang over an adjacent letter in Chief Kasina Ndoo’s book will not be listed within this report as they can be found on every single page and because there have been no accusations of such kerning on Barack Obama’s 1961 CPGH Kenyan birth certificate. \u00a0 However, if readers would like examples they may see my previous report wherein examples are given in the group of scanned words listed under the heading titled, ‘ascenders’.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other day I digitized Chief Kasina Ndoo’s book and have now uploaded it to my scribd.com account (Patriot1980).\u00a0\u00a0 I have embedded the said upload below for review:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Life-Story of a Kenya Chief : The Life of Chief Kasina Ndoo (as told to J.B. Carson) 1958.<\/a> by Lucas Daniel Smith<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/object><\/p>\n

One other notable, and useful, passage from the book is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

Page 15 thru 16.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 “I am not quite sure of the date of my birth.\u00a0 In Ukamba we date things from the years of the famines, and I know that I was about ten years old at the time of the greatest of famines – the Nzaa wa Ngomanisye of 1898.<\/span><\/em>“<\/span><\/p>\n

Some skeptics of Barack Obama’s 1961 CPGH Kenyan birth certificate have made accusations that the document is a forgery on the grounds that it does not list a full date of birth (only the year is given) for Obama’s father.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0\u00a0 Kerning in which descenders and ascenders hang under and over adjacent letters was possible, and existed in printed matter such as books and documents, prior to the year 1961 when Barack Hussein Obama II’s Coast Province General Hospital (CPGH), Mombasa, British Protectorate of Kenya, Certificate of Birth was issued.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think it is very fitting that it turned out to be an esteemed Chief of Kenya, Kasina Ndoo, who has vindicated the typography and kerning on Barack Obama’s 1961 CPGH birth certificate.\u00a0 Thank you, thank you very much Chief Kasina Ndoo.<\/span><\/p>\n

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