{"id":36203,"date":"2021-04-01T13:09:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T13:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=36203"},"modified":"2022-07-08T13:17:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T13:17:47","slug":"addressing-statelessness-in-kenya-through-a-confluence-of-litigation-transitional-justice-and-community-activism-reflecting-on-the-cases-of-the-nubian-makonde-and-shona-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/addressing-statelessness-in-kenya-through-a-confluence-of-litigation-transitional-justice-and-community-activism-reflecting-on-the-cases-of-the-nubian-makonde-and-shona-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing statelessness in Kenya through a confluence of litigation, transitional justice, and community activism: reflecting on the cases of the Nubian, Makonde and Shona communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Songa<\/p>\n<p>Citation: A Songa \u2018Addressing statelessness in Kenya through a confluence of litigation, transitional justice, and community activism: reflecting on the cases of the Nubian, Makonde and Shona communities\u2019 (2021) 5 African Human Rights Yearbook 253-276<\/p>\n<p>ABSTRACT:<\/p>\n<p>This article outlines the challenge of statelessness in Kenya and proceeds to focus on two seminal cases filed by the Nubian community against the Kenyan state: one before the African Commission on Human and Peoples\u2019 Rights and the other at the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. Attention then turns to Kenya\u2019s transitional justice agenda and its interaction with the plight of stateless persons in Kenya. Through the experiences of the Nubian, Makonde and Shona communities, the article also explores the role of community-led activism in furthering the cause of ending statelessness in Kenya. It concludes with key lessons to be learned from utilising litigation, transitional justice and community-led activism as part of the struggle for the rights of stateless persons in Kenya. It relies on desk-review and research of the Nubian cases, Kenya\u2019s truth commission report and other official inquires, civil society reports, the 2010 Constitution and related laws.<\/p>\n<p>TITRE ET R\u00c9SUM\u00c9 EN FRANCAIS:<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019apport du contentieux, de la justice transitionnelle et de l\u2019activisme communautaire \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9radication de l\u2019apatridie au Kenya: r\u00e9flexion \u00e0 partir des cas des communaut\u00e9s nubienne, makonde et shona<\/p>\n<p>R\u00c9SUM\u00c9: Cet article d\u00e9crit le d\u00e9fi de l\u2019apatridie au Kenya \u00e0 travers l\u2019examen de deux affaires importantes initi\u00e9es par la communaut\u00e9 nubienne contre l\u2019\u00c9tat kenyan: l\u2019une devant la Commission africaine des droits de l\u2019homme et des peuples et l\u2019autre devant le Comit\u00e9 africain d\u2019experts sur les droits et le bien-\u00eatre de l\u2019enfant. L\u2019emphase est mise sur le programme de justice transitionnelle du Kenya et son interaction avec la situation critique des apatrides dans ce pays. Partant des exp\u00e9riences des communaut\u00e9s nubienne, makonde et shona, l\u2019article explore \u00e9galement le r\u00f4le de l\u2019activisme communautaire dans la promotion des activit\u00e9s tendant \u00e0 \u00e9radiquer l\u2019apatridie au Kenya. En conclusion, l\u2019article tire les le\u00e7ons principales que le recours au contentieux, \u00e0 la justice transitionnelle et \u00e0 l\u2019activisme communautaire apporte \u00e0 la cause des apatrides au Kenya. Diff\u00e9rentes m\u00e9thodes sont mobilis\u00e9es pour r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 la question de recherche, \u00e0 savoir une \u00e9tude documentaire et des recherches sur les affaires nubiennes, le rapport de la commission de v\u00e9rit\u00e9 du Kenya et d\u2019autres enqu\u00eates officielles, des rapports de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile, la Constitution de 2010 et les lois connexes.<\/p>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahry.up.ac.za\/songa-a?lctg=105129304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ahry.up.ac.za\/songa-a?lctg=105129304<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Andrew Songa Citation: A Songa \u2018Addressing statelessness in Kenya through a confluence of litigation, transitional justice, and community activism: reflecting on the cases of the Nubian, Makonde and Shona communities\u2019 (2021) 5 African Human Rights Yearbook 253-276 ABSTRACT: This article outlines the challenge of statelessness in Kenya and proceeds to focus on two seminal [&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-36203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-academic-articles","item-year-683","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36203","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=36203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36209,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36203\/revisions\/36209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}