{"id":27896,"date":"2020-07-28T10:56:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T10:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=27896"},"modified":"2020-07-29T11:29:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T11:29:40","slug":"kenya-matiangi-secures-kenyan-citizenship-for-stateless-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenya-matiangi-secures-kenyan-citizenship-for-stateless-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Matiang&#8217;i Secures Kenyan Citizenship for Stateless Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Siele<\/p>\n<p>Nozisi Dube couldn&#8217;t hide her joy on Tuesday, July 28 after she was finally granted Kenyan citizenship by the Ministry of Interior.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the stateless Shona community which has existed in Kenya for more than 50 years without recognition from the government, 20-year old Nozisi had missed out on innumerable opportunities in life due to her status.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, she was unable to join the University of Nairobi (UoN) in pursuit of her dream of studying economics, as she lacked basic documentation such as a birth certificate, identification card or passport.<\/p>\n<p>Her story was shared by renowned economist David Ndii after a chance meeting with the young girl on Monday, July 6, as she sought the help of civil society actors to secure the required documentation.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenyans.co.ke\/news\/55789-matiangi-secures-kenyan-citizenship-stateless-student\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.kenyans.co.ke\/news\/55789-matiangi-secures-kenyan-citizenship-stateless-student<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Martin Siele Nozisi Dube couldn&#8217;t hide her joy on Tuesday, July 28 after she was finally granted Kenyan citizenship by the Ministry of Interior. A member of the stateless Shona community which has existed in Kenya for more than 50 years without recognition from the government, 20-year old Nozisi had missed out on innumerable [&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-27896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-668","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27896","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=27896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27900,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27896\/revisions\/27900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}