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The Murder of George Floyd, Police Violence and Racism in the United States
1.6.2020 To HisExcellency The United States Ambassador to Kenya, Ambassador Kyle McCarter.The U.S. Embassy, United Nations Avenue,Nairobi, Kenya.Via Email to : nairobiprotocol@state.govDearAmbassadorKyle McCarter, Re: The Murder of George Floyd, Police Violence and...
The Kenya Diaspora Alliance, Society of Black Lawyers, Bandung and Blaksox Call On America To Cease Its Violence Against African Americans and Adopt A Nine Point Plan for Institutional Change
The Kenya Diaspora Alliance (KDA) represents over 200,000 Kenyans in the international diaspora, many of who are resident, studying, working or running businesses in the USA. The Bandung Conference is an international NGO based in Kenya. The Africa Diaspora Alliance...
Rethinking the Kenyan diaspora strategy and practice
When you hold up the bright and blind spots with regards to Kenyans living abroad, you are likely to see more of the latter than the former.
Yet, there is an unambiguous, state-instituted diaspora policy framework. This would ideally dovetail with the keenness of patriotic Kenyans abroad interested in making a positive change in their motherland.
The problem is that the various interests involved in matters diaspora seem to be on divergent paths.
KDA MOURNS AMBASSADOR CHRIS MBURU
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 18, 2020 - The Kenya Diaspora Alliance (KDA) has learnt with utter shock the sudden passing of Amb Chris Mburu. We are speechless since we just spoke with him on phone last Thursday on official diaspora matters, and he was in high spirits,...
MRADI BORA OR BORA MRADI? A PROFESSIONAL VIEW ON NIIMS
Over the last two months or so, there has been an ongoing public debate on the “Huduma Namba” initiative, more formally referred to as the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS). The project is expected to cost the tax payer Six Billion Kenya...
KENYANS CANNOT AFFORD TO SQUANDER THE ‘HANDSHAKE’ OPPORTUNITY
Kenyans and Friends of Kenya must cease the moment to move the country to greatness. We have a once in a life-time opportunity to do so. The only two other that come to mind were at independence and in 2002 when the country literally united to send KANU home. In both...
Supreme Court Ruling on Diaspora Voting – 6th May 2015
(Appeal from the Judgment and Order of the Court of Appeal sitting at Nairobi (Nambuye, Musinga and M’inoti, JJ.A) delivered on 6th June, 2014 in Nairobi Civil Appeal No. 350 of 2012) JUDGEMENT BACKGROUND [1] On 31st July, 2012, the 1st to 4th respondents...
Register those in the Diaspora, says ex-MP
FORMER Rangwe MP Shem Ochuodho has moved to court to stop the ongoing mass voter registration. Ochuodho, a resident of Juba, South Sudan, says the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has not included the registration of eligible citizens living in the...
INVEST IN KENYA:The Diaspora Life Plan.
Life is a journey, and what we encounter along the way has been proven to be very unpredictable. Many at times we don’t know what will happen next, so we just roll with flow. In that journey, you may face situations that are equivalent to that heavy fall that leaves...
Registration for Dual Citizenship for Kenyans in the Diaspora Has Become a Fiasco
When Diaspora Kenyans fought to be accorded the right to dual citizenship, they were not asking for anything extraordinary. In deed, the right to dual citizenship has been enjoyed for many years in many jurisdictions the world over. Moreover, Diaspora Kenyans earned...
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