{"id":11472,"date":"2017-01-13T10:21:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T10:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=11472"},"modified":"2017-01-16T10:24:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T10:24:28","slug":"asians-request-for-recognition-as-kenyas-44th-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/asians-request-for-recognition-as-kenyas-44th-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Asians request for recognition as Kenya&#8217;s 44th tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"author noprint\">By STELLA CHERONO<\/section>\n<div>\n<p>Kenyan Asians have asked the government to recognise them as the country\u2019s 44th ethnic community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The group said President Uhuru Kenyatta should do what he did to the Makonde in Kwale after they were recognised as the country\u2019s 43rd community when they complained of decades of marginalisation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Makonde marched from Kwale County to Nairobi late last year to air their grievances.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>They were supported by several civil society groups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mother\u2019s Lap Foundation executive director Farah Mannzoor on Thursday said Asians made the decision \u201cbecause we have exercised our duty as citizens\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read further on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Recognise-us-as-44th-community--Asians-\/1056-3515604-o2wfys\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Nation website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By STELLA CHERONO Kenyan Asians have asked the government to recognise them as the country\u2019s 44th ethnic community. The group said President Uhuru Kenyatta should do what he did to the Makonde in Kwale after they were recognised as the country\u2019s 43rd community when they complained of decades of marginalisation. The Makonde marched from Kwale [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11473,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472\/revisions\/11473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}