{"id":230,"date":"2015-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/grappling-with-identity-in-the-footsteps-of-africas-nowhere-and-everywhere-children\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T07:06:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:06:08","slug":"grappling-with-identity-in-the-footsteps-of-africas-nowhere-and-everywhere-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/grappling-with-identity-in-the-footsteps-of-africas-nowhere-and-everywhere-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Grappling with identity: In the footsteps of Africa\u2019s \u2018nowhere and everywhere children\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, when Allan-Roy Sekeitto won the opportunity to participate in a continental reality television show, Imagine Africa, its organisers profiled him as a representative of two countries; South Africa and Uganda. He was born in neither.<\/p>\n<p>Sekeitto, now 28, was at the time a medical student in South Africa\u2019s University of Limpopo. He was born in Botswana, where both his parents worked.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before his second birthday, the family moved to South Africa, where they have lived to-date in the city of Johannesburg. Sekeitto is thus a child of three countries; none of which has fully embraced him. He is a child of everywhere and nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/mgafrica.com\/article\/2015-02-21-in-the-footsteps-of-africas-nowhere-children\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2007, when Allan-Roy Sekeitto won the opportunity to participate in a continental reality television show, Imagine Africa, its organisers profiled him as a representative of two countries; South Africa and Uganda. He was born in neither. Sekeitto, now 28, was at the time a medical student in South Africa\u2019s University of Limpopo. He was [&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-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-east-africa","region-south-africa","region-southern-africa","region-uganda","type-news-articles","item-year-396","item-theme-dual-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}