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Kenyans to celebrate Madaraka Day with new festival

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Geoffrey Gichana was elected Sunday as president of Mwanyagetinge which pulls together members of the Gusii community of Kenyans in Minnesota. The Gusii community...