© UNHCR/Roger Arnold
“I feel like I am born again.
Now I am free.”
Tina is one of some 6,000 Makonde people who have received ID cards and citizenship from
Kenya in 2017, after the Government declared the Makonde community its 43rd tribe, paving
the way for eventual naturalization. Makonde communities have been in the country since the
British colonial period, having originally arrived as labourers from Mozambique.
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