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A Kenyan man has shared his inspirational story of how he went on to achieve academic success in the US despite being written off by the Kenyan education system. Having scored D+ in his Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination, Mwangi Mukami had no chance of joining the college…
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A Kenyan-American woman living in the US is part of a campaign team that has been working behind the scenes to ensure Joe Biden unseats Trump in the upcoming American presidential election. Esther Ongeri, a political scientist, is the Director of Special Projects in the Biden 2020 campaign,…
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A Nairobi court has directed three Kenyans who swindled a relative living in the US of Sh16 million to refund the money. The three; Amos Kosgey, David Magun, and Collins Saina, are said to have lured the victim, Charles Meto into investing in a holiday home project at the coast as an equity partner…
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Kenya’s Nelly Ndung’u on Saturday came close to being crowned the winner of this year’s Miss Africa Great Britain beauty pageant. Nelly, who was among the 30 finalists in the competition, finished in the 1st runners-up position while Zambia’s Chinyanta Kabaso (Miss Aberdeen) won the crown. Miss…
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Giant telecoms operator, Safaricom now controls 50 percent of the money sent home by Kenyans in the diaspora through its MPesa Global platform. Kenyans living and working abroad wired home Sh284 billion through MPesa Global between April 1st, 2019, and March 31st, 2020, according to Safaricom…
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A UK-based Kenyan woman whose 24-year-old son was brutalized by police in Colchester, Essex in an incident captured on camera has spoken out. In an interview with Daily Nation on Tuesday, the mother identified as Japhet confirmed her son, Wycliff Cox is suffering from a mental illness and was…
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The Kenyan government has written to UK authorities following an incident in which officers from the Essex Police Department were captured on camera assaulting a Kenyan man. The incident came to light after a four-minute video showing a group of officers manhandling the man identified as Wycliff…
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A campaign has been launched to demand justice for a young Kenyan man who was allegedly assaulted by police in the UK. This comes after a four-minute video showing officers from the Essex Police Department clobbering the man identified as Wycliff Cox in the presence of his mother and family was…
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Kenyan-Canadian lawyer Miguna Miguna has caused a stir on social media after claiming to have dreamt about President Kenyatta’s death. “Last night I dreamt that Despot Uhuru Kenyatta had died and become the world's ugliest wild animal, Psychrolutes Marcidus.” “I was happy when I woke up. Have a…
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Police in the UK were captured on camera beating up a young Kenyan man in the presence of his mother. The man’s mother said her son suffers from mental health issues but police officers would listen to none of it, according to an article published on www.kenyanparentsinusa.com. The incident…