Saturday, February 15, 2020

February 15. On this date in 2017, Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs published "A Discussion with Joy Mboya, Executive Director of the Godown Arts Centre." Joy Mboya, a member of the NSA of Kenya, is from a prominent Kenyan Bahá’í family (daughter of early converts including NSA member Catherine Mboya and brother of musician Andrew Mboya) The interviewer asks about a published population "figure of 450,000, which seems rather high," receiving the reply "During the early 1960s and 1970s, the numbers might indeed have been that high...At present our data shows the community numbers to be between 25,000 and 30,000 people. Those are mostly adults, as children are not yet fully captured in the statistics. A total for the community, including children, may be around 40,000..."





February 15. On this date in 2017, Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs published "A Discussion with Joy Mboya, Executive Director of the Godown Arts Centre." Joy Mboya, a member of the NSA of Kenya, is from a prominent Kenyan Bahá’í family (daughter of early converts including NSA member Catherine Mboya and brother of musician Andrew Mboya) The interviewer asks about a published population "figure of 450,000, which seems rather high," receiving the reply "During the early 1960s and 1970s, the numbers might indeed have been that high...At present our data shows the community numbers to be between 25,000 and 30,000 people. Those are mostly adults, as children are not yet fully captured in the statistics. A total for the community, including children, may be around 40,000..."

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