kipanden.
/kɪˈpandeɪ/, U.S. /kiˈpændeɪ/, East African English /kiˈpande/ In Kenya: an identity document formerly issued to black Africans; spec. a document that the British colonial government required all black African males to carry under the 1915 Native Registration Ordinance, which came in the form of a small red book worn around the neck, certifying the holder's personal details, tribal affiliation, and employment history. Now historical. The kipande system severely restricted the movement of black Africans, and enabled abusive labour practices and ethnic segregation. Africans protested against the system until it was abolished in 1947.
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1900 H. W. Woodward in Central Afr. 1 Aug. 137 A girl had been sent for by her brother's request..to be removed from her mistress... She had her ‘kipande’ (brass cheque with her number when freed).
1934 Manch. Guardian 25 Apr. 9/7 The Kipande, or registration form, still exists to arouse the resentment of thousands of Africans yearly and to bring punishment on them.
2014 U. Jhaveri Dancing with Destiny viii. 62 I remember groups of Askaris policemen, some times supervised by a white man, harassing men on the streets, catching and beating them with truncheons and packing them off in open police vans to do forced labour simply because they did not have the mandatory kipande.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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