{"id":12212,"date":"2017-02-15T13:27:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T13:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=12212"},"modified":"2017-02-21T13:29:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T13:29:29","slug":"its-taken-80-years-for-this-kenyan-community-to-be-recognized-as-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/its-taken-80-years-for-this-kenyan-community-to-be-recognized-as-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s taken 80 years for this Kenyan community to be recognized as citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Joshua Masinde<\/p>\n

Thomas Nguli has seen the worst of times as an \u2018outsider\u2019 in Kenya, where he was born 60 years ago. He is one of the thousands of the Makonde community that originated from Mozambique about 80 years ago but were never recognized as citizens even after several generations were born and raised in Kenya.<\/p>\n

Until this year, they had never experienced peace of mind from the time their forefathers were brought to Kenya from the 1930s to work<\/a> on sisal and sugar plantations at the country\u2019s coast.<\/p>\n

Kenyan-born Makonde have always been labeled as \u2018outsiders\u2019 despite not really knowing any other country than Kenya. Local officials occasionally threaten them with repatriation whenever the community kicked up a fuss to demand national identification cards (IDs). The national ID is an important document in Kenya as proof of citizenship particularly in dealings with the government and even the private sector.<\/p>\n

Read further on Quartz Africa website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Joshua Masinde Thomas Nguli has seen the worst of times as an \u2018outsider\u2019 in Kenya, where he was born 60 years ago. He is one of the thousands of the Makonde community that originated from Mozambique about 80 years ago but were never recognized as citizens even after several generations were born and raised […]","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":[499,1],"tags":[626],"class_list":["post-12212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-uncategorized","tag-makonde-fr","region-kenya-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-631","item-theme-acquisition-de-la-nationalite","item-theme-apatridie","item-theme-naturalisation-et-le-mariage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12213,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12212\/revisions\/12213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}