{"id":133,"date":"2015-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/after-50-years-stateless-shona-still-trapped-in-kenyas-shadows\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T06:53:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:53:33","slug":"after-50-years-stateless-shona-still-trapped-in-kenyas-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/after-50-years-stateless-shona-still-trapped-in-kenyas-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"After 50 years, stateless Shona still trapped in Kenya\u2019s shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a village on the outskirts of Kenya\u2019s capital Nairobi, 53-year-old Margaret Maposa embroiders seat covers for a customer, sitting with her niece Elizabeth Moyo, who is weaving a multi-colored basket.<\/p>\n<p>Both women wear white headscarves, subtle markers of their membership of the 2,000-strong stateless Zimbabwean Shona community who have been living invisibly among Kenyans for more than 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Maposa moved to Kenya as a two-year-old with her parents in 1963. Her family stayed on after war broke out in Zimbabwe, then Rhodesia, in 1964 and continued until 1980.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"focusParagraph\">&#8220;I do not know whether I&#8217;m Kenyan or Zimbabwean,&#8221; said the mother of five, in Kiambaa village. &#8220;I have lived, married and raised a family here but still I do not have any papers.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/05\/29\/us-kenya-stateless-idUSKBN0OE1LU20150529\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a village on the outskirts of Kenya\u2019s capital Nairobi, 53-year-old Margaret Maposa embroiders seat covers for a customer, sitting with her niece Elizabeth Moyo, who is weaving a multi-colored basket. Both women wear white headscarves, subtle markers of their membership of the 2,000-strong stateless Zimbabwean Shona community who have been living invisibly among Kenyans [&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-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-east-africa","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-396","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","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=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4072,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/4072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}