{"id":36368,"date":"2022-08-06T06:34:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T06:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=36368"},"modified":"2022-08-08T06:42:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T06:42:27","slug":"meet-kenyan-community-voting-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/meet-kenyan-community-voting-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Kenyan Community Voting for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By MAUREEN NJERI<\/p>\n<p>The Shona will participate in their first ever General Election n Kenya nearly six decades after the community migrated from Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to BBC Africa, the community secretary general Oliver Muregerera was excited\u00a0to finally exercise his civil rights\u00a0like other Kenyans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very happy to be voting for the first time. I am now a recognized Kenyan citizen. I am free,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The community, consisting of about 4,000 people, was recognised by the government in 2020\u00a0after years of living as stateless citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenyans.co.ke\/news\/78093-meet-kenyan-community-voting-first-time\">https:\/\/www.kenyans.co.ke\/news\/78093-meet-kenyan-community-voting-first-time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch BBC report: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-africa-62437130\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-africa-62437130<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By MAUREEN NJERI The Shona will participate in their first ever General Election n Kenya nearly six decades after the community migrated from Zimbabwe. Speaking to BBC Africa, the community secretary general Oliver Muregerera was excited\u00a0to finally exercise his civil rights\u00a0like other Kenyans. &#8220;I am very happy to be voting for the first time. I [&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-36368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-683","item-theme-voter-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36368","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=36368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36372,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36368\/revisions\/36372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}