{"id":32979,"date":"2021-08-23T18:41:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T18:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=32979"},"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\/fr\/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":"<p>by AKELLO ODENYO and CHRISTINE NTINYARI<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were alive and dead at the same time, like ghosts, because we had no identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those were the words of Zephaniah Muungani, a member of the Shona community living in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeneration after another; statelessness and the misery that comes with it were all that the offspring of a Shona could inherit,\u00a0\u00bb she said.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/news\/2021-08-22-we-lived-like-ghosts-before-we-got-ids-shona-community-members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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 [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[680],"class_list":["post-32979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","tag-shona-fr","region-kenya-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-676","item-theme-apatridie","item-theme-documents-d-identite-et-passeports","item-theme-discrimination-fr","item-theme-ethnique-raciale-religieuse","item-theme-naturalisation-et-le-mariage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32979","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=32979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32980,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32979\/revisions\/32980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}