by SHABAN OMAR Kwale Makonde community members have decried alienation in employment opportunities and useful development projects. According to their chairman Thomas Nguli, some local leaders and residents still perceive them as stateless individuals and not counted as important members […]
Thomas Nguli, now 62, tells how a life without citizenship stole his dreams. By Jonathan Clayton GENEVA – Some 10 million people around the world are today estimated to be stateless, living in a bureaucratic limbo without access to health, education […]
By KAZUNGU SAMUEL & FADHILI FREDRICK Expectant faces greet us when we arrive at Makongeni village off Likoni-Lunga Lunga road. The sleepy hamlet is home to the Makonde people who migrated here from Mozambique in the 1930s to work in […]
By Radha Govil KILIFI, Kenya – Tourists who visit Kenya’s coastal areas of Kwale and Kilifi often go home with intricate ebony carvings. Many of the talented artists who carve and sell these souvenirs are Makonde, an ethnic group who, until […]
By Joshua Masinde Thomas Nguli has seen the worst of times as an ‘outsider’ in Kenya, where he was born 60 years ago. He is one of the thousands of the Makonde community that originated from Mozambique about 80 years […]
Four-part video by the Kenya Human Rights Commission on the protest march by the Makonde people seeking recognition of Kenyan citizenship. Part 1: The Trek Part 2: Uhuru Park Part 3: State House Part 4: Compilation: citizenship recognised
By Diana Gichengo The Makonde community in Kenya arrived in the country in the 1940s mainly as laborers in sugar and sisal plantations at the coast from Mozambique, majority of them settled in Tanzania while the rest were left in […]
IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by section 9 (2) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Co-ordination of National Government declares that: 1. With effect from the 1st November, 2016 the registration of […]
By George Kegoro This is a general reflection on the historic development that had led to the Makonde community, at last, receiving Kenyan nationality. A “trek” is a long, often difficult, journey, and the idea that the Makonde should hold […]
By PATRICK VIDIJA and CHRISPINUS WEKESA President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday issued a directive that all eligible stateless Makonde people be issued with national identity cards by December. This follows the seventh ordinary cabinet meeting that held at State House […]
By CHARLES OMONDI and PSCU Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta Thursday directed that all eligible Makonde people to be issued with national identity cards by December. The president further ordered responsible government departments to ensure the eligible members of the community […]
President Uhuru Kenyatta has personally apologised to the Makonde people on behalf of his government and the previous three that came before him. In a statement after meeting the Makonde who walked from Kilifi, the president has directed the Interior […]