Tag: Mwanyagetinge
Kenyans to celebrate Madaraka Day with new festival
Kenyans from across Minnesota will gather in Brooklyn Center on Saturday for a festival to celebrate Madaraka Day, the day in 1963 when Kenya...
Jeremiah Maroko, influential Minnesota Kenyan and Mwanyagetinge leader, dead at 67
Influential Kenyan American leader, Mr. Jeremiah Bosire Maroko, passed away on May 28 at age 67, leaving behind a legacy of uniting the dominant...
Mwanyagetinge president Huldah Momanyi Hiltsley loses reelection bid
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. – Incumbent Mwanyagetinge president, Ms. Huldah Momanyi Hiltsley, the organization’s first elected female president and who last year almost won a...
Minnesota Kenyans close out summer with a picnic
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. – Mwanyagetinge Association of Kenyans in Minnesota hosted their annual family picnic at Centennial Park on Sunday, August 29, 2021. Highlights...
Henry Ongeri formally launches campaign for governor of Nyamira county
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. - Kenyan-American Minnesota lawyer, Henry Ongeri, formally kicked off his campaign for governor of Nyamira County in the 2022 election Saturday...
Mwanyagetinge installs Huldah Momanyi as first elected female president
On Sunday afternoon, Mwanyagetinge installed Huldah Nyamisa Momanyi-Hiltsley as its president in a COVID-19 influenced social distancing ceremony presided over by Japheth Kimaiga, the...
Beloved Kenyan-American community leader in Minnesota dies of coronavirus
Minnesota's Kenyan community is grieving the loss of an influential community leader, Thomas Nyambane, to coronavirus. Nyambane, affectionately referred to as Dr. Nyambane, was...
Kenyan-Americans to form new credit union
Starting 2017 or early 2018, when Kenyan-Americans in Minnesota and eventually the rest of the United States need to obtain a mortgage, or send...
Incumbent Gichana reelected as Mwanyagetinge president in disputed election
Incumbent president of the Mwanyagetinge Association of Kenyans in Minnesota, Geoffrey "Chui" Gichana, won reelection in a poorly attended but drama filled election on...
Gichana elected president of Mwanyagetinge
Geoffrey Gichana was elected Sunday as president of Mwanyagetinge which pulls together members of the Gusii community of Kenyans in Minnesota. The Gusii community...