{"id":32977,"date":"2021-08-23T18:41:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T18:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=32977"},"modified":"2022-02-25T14:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T14:36:52","slug":"kenya-we-lived-like-ghosts-before-we-got-ids-shona-community-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenya-we-lived-like-ghosts-before-we-got-ids-shona-community-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: We lived like ghosts before we got IDs \u2014 Shona community members"},"content":{"rendered":"

by AKELLO ODENYO and CHRISTINE NTINYARI<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were alive and dead at the same time, like ghosts, because we had no identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those were the words of Zephaniah Muungani, a member of the Shona community living in Kenya.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeneration after another; statelessness and the misery that comes with it were all that the offspring of a Shona could inherit,” she said.<\/p>\n

For years, the Shona lived as a stateless community in Kenya until July 28, 2021, when the government issued them with national identity cards.<\/p>\n

Read further: https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/news\/2021-08-22-we-lived-like-ghosts-before-we-got-ids-shona-community-members\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by AKELLO ODENYO and CHRISTINE NTINYARI \u201cWe were alive and dead at the same time, like ghosts, because we had no identity.\u201d Those were the words of Zephaniah Muungani, a member of the Shona community living in Kenya. \u201cGeneration after another; statelessness and the misery that comes with it were all that the offspring of […]","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":[679],"class_list":["post-32977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-shona","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-676","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32977","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=32977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34906,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32977\/revisions\/34906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}