This photo of a COLB (Certificate of Live Birth) from Kenya was filed as part of a case:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/18018714/03118509265

Is it real?  I personally don't know if that photo is real, or the document.  But I am seeing some wrong information about the dates showing up in commentaries around the blogs and forums as people try to determine if the document is real.

Wikipedia earlier today had Kenya declaring independence from England, Dec. 12, 1963.  That wrong information in Wikipedia brings into question some of the dates on this photo of a COLB.

Kenya declared independence from England on June 1, 1963.  This is a holiday in Kenya known as Madaraka Day.

June 1, 1963, reads: “Nairobi, Kenya – Waving his ‘wisk’ the newly-elected Premier of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta (R, foreground), greeted throngs of cheering citizens as he rode through the streets of Nairobi. Accompanying Kenyatta are Tom Mboya (L), Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs; A. Oginga Odinga, Minister for Home Affairs; and James S. Gichuru, Minister for Finance. The motorcade was part of the National Holiday celebrations which marked the start of internal self-government for the African nation.” Photo: © Bettmann/CORBIS


Madaraka Day - June 1, 1963:

- Kenya was given sovereignty over their political affairs and their resources
- Kenya was given a Bill of Rights to be enforced by an independent judiciary
- Kenya created a democratic Nation by rule of law

Jamuhuri (Republic) Day - December 12, 1963:

December 12th 1963 (Jamuhuri or Republic Day), Kenya attained independent dominion status within the British Commonwealth under a constitution that was negotiated and agreed at three multi-party Constitutional Conferences held in London and Nairobi between 1961 and 1963.

Background:

KENYA'S INDEPENDENCE

On December 12, 1963, the day Kenya finally shrugged off the yoke of colonial rule and attained its independence

National holidays:

Madaraka Day - June 1, 1963
Kenyatta Day - October 20, 1963
Jamhuri Day - December 12, 1963
 
December 12, 1963, marked the end of almost a century of bitter struggles which saw a lot of suffering and bloodshed in
Kenya. During that long period of struggling for self assertion, there were painful sacrifices on the part of indigenous people of
Kenya. A great number of children became orphans, parents lost their children, men and women lost their spouses and thousands of freedom fighters, branded by the colonialist terrorists were marched off to detention camps where they were thoroughly humiliated and where many met their deaths. 

The forty years between 1920 and 1960, were perhaps the most trying of all periods in which Kenyans struggled to shape their
political course.  Kenyans intensified their struggle in a more organized manner behind people such as Harry Thuku, Jomo Kenyatta, Oginga Odinga, Tom Mboya and Daniel arap Moi to name just a few.  They gave inspiration to the Kenyan masses and spearheaded an onslaught against the machinations of the colonial establishment that for many decades subjugated the people of Kenya.

Kenya's first general elections were held in February 1961. Campaigning very largely on the issue of Kenyatta's release and national leadership KANU one of the two newly formed political parties emerged victorious over KADU, winning about two thirds of the vote. In March of the same year, six nominees from each party were authorized as a delegation to visit Kenyatta in Lodwar, a small town in northern Kenya, where he had been restricted. Kenyatta urged them to unite and work for full independence. Kenyatta was released later that year and in August of the same year called for a joint meeting of the two
parties. As a result of this meeting the two parties agreed to form an interim coalition government and to hold elections before
independence.

A constitutional conference was held at Lancaster House in London from February to April 1962, with KADU appearing as the
governing party and KANU in the opposition. Although KANU won the 1961 general elections, the party refused to form a transitional government because of Kenyatta's continued restriction, and this led to KADU's being invited to form the first African government in Kenya. The conference ultimately shaped the framework of a new Kenyan constitution with the
objective of a new Kenyan nation. KANU agreed to join KADU-led transitional government and both  parties returned to Kenya
anxious to put into practice a national  coalition administration and to work towards a general election in May 1963.

When the elections came round, KANU scored a far greater victory over KADU than before, and these elections resulted  in
the all important achievement of internal self-government for the country on June 1, 1963. To many Kenyan nationalist leaders, it
was a proud moment, a realization of a goal long identified and fought for and which now represented the last lap of the road to
independence. To finalize the arrangements for the  country's independence, another round of important deliberations was held
at Lancaster House in London, between September and October 1963.

Among other things the conference agreed on amendments and additions to the constitution that were necessary to effect
Kenya's change of status from self-government to independence.  This conference confirmed that December 12, 1963 would be the date of the country's independence.

On the night of December 11, 1963 over half a million people thronged the Independence Arena in  Nairobi to witness the
unfolding of a historic ceremony. When the black, red and green flag of independent Kenya was hoisted at midnight, with the Union Jack lowered, it was greeted with the thunderous applause of the crowd below. The glory of the day was underscored  by Jomo Kenyatta himself who, as the new prime minister, received  the instruments of independence and affirmed: "It is with great pride and pleasure that I receive these constitutional instruments today as embodiment of Kenya's freedom. This is the greatest day in Kenya's history." 

Exactly a year later, on December 12, 1964, Kenya became a republic and the last British governor in Kenya departed, leaving Kenyatta to steer the country as its first president. Indeed Kenya was now a free country having severed a colonial ties and becoming a republic answerable to no one else but its people.

Sources:  

- Kenyatta, Jomo. Facing Mount Kenya
- Kanogo, Tabitha. Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau. 1st edition
- Kenya Ministry of Foreign Affairs