{"id":199342,"date":"2025-06-02T13:36:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-slovenian-president-pirc-musar-urges-kenya-to-uphold-independence-ideals\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T13:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:36:34","slug":"kenya-slovenian-president-pirc-musar-urges-kenya-to-uphold-independence-ideals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-slovenian-president-pirc-musar-urges-kenya-to-uphold-independence-ideals\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Slovenian President Pirc Musar Urges Kenya to Uphold Independence Ideals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Slovenian President Nata\u0161a Pirc Musar has called on Kenyans to remain vigilant in protecting the ideals of independence and to resist lingering condescending attitudes from former colonial powers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Speaking on Sunday during the 62nd Madaraka Day celebrations in Homabay, where she was the guest of honour, President Pirc Musar said that countries should draw lessons from the past experiences to shape their future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">&#8220;In the 1960s, the world experienced a wave of decolonization. Yet, in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506020288.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Slovenian President Nata\u0161a Pirc Musar has called on Kenyans to remain vigilant in protecting the ideals of independence and to resist lingering condescending attitudes from former colonial powers. Speaking on Sunday during the 62nd Madaraka Day celebrations in Homabay, where she was the guest of honour, President Pirc Musar said that countries should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":199343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,29076,7690,4688,430,51504,257,51503,2450,51502,254,10367,6810],"class_list":["post-199342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ideals","tag-independence","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-musar","tag-news","tag-pirc","tag-president","tag-slovenian","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uphold","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}