{"id":16456,"date":"2018-03-28T10:05:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T10:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=16456"},"modified":"2018-05-16T13:23:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T13:23:33","slug":"kenya-the-miguna-miguna-story-and-what-the-elders-might-have-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenya-the-miguna-miguna-story-and-what-the-elders-might-have-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: The Miguna Miguna story and what the elders might have said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO<\/p>\n<p>The drama elicited by opposition activist Miguna Miguna\u2019s deportation to Canada and the chaos around attempts to deport him a second time earlier in the week after the court ordered his passport returned has taken Kenya to an uncomfortable place other countries have been.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya can learn a few things from the experience.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the issues around Miguna are framed in legal and formal political terms.<\/p>\n<p>Did he renounce his Kenyan citizenship when he became a Canadian?<\/p>\n<p>Can someone who is Kenyan by birth ever lose his citizenship, whether or not he renounces it? And so forth.<\/p>\n<p>CITIZENSHIP<\/p>\n<p>There are much bigger questions, though. One of them is how someone who was\/is a citizen by birth, naturalisation or ancestry has to defend their citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/oped\/opinion\/The-Miguna-Miguna-story-\/440808-4362086-2arxtdz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/oped\/opinion\/The-Miguna-Miguna-story-\/440808-4362086-2arxtdz\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO The drama elicited by opposition activist Miguna Miguna\u2019s deportation to Canada and the chaos around attempts to deport him a second time earlier in the week after the court ordered his passport returned has taken Kenya to an uncomfortable place other countries have been. Kenya can learn a few things from the [&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-16456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","region-tanzania","region-uganda","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-acquisition-of-nationality","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456","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=16456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16457,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456\/revisions\/16457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}