MADCA
Celebrating Mijikenda Culture & Heritage
Malindi District Association popularly known as MADCA is a non-profit Community Based Organization founded in 2023. Our goal is to empower the Mijikenda community and it’s neighbors on the Kenyan coast by preserving, revitalizing and promoting our unique tangible and intangible cultural heritage. We do this through activities such as music, dance, fashion, art, sports and much more.
Our Achievements
PREVENTING ELDER ABUSE
Preventing Extrajudicial Killings of Elders
In 2011, after preaching peace by holding peace walks and interfaith inter-communal prayers, we realised there was an ever increasing problem of extrajudicial killings of the elderly in the name of witchcraft. After doing civic education campaigns and highlighting the problem through various media including the press and peace-walks we realised the elderly who survived these acts had nowhere to escape to. This compelled MADCA to add a rescue wing to the existing Resource and Cultural Center named after Mekatilili wa Menza, the colonial resistance heroine who started the Giriama uprising of 1913/1914. After two years we decided to start a second Centre in Ganze at Mrima wa ndege to meet the growing demand. We currently house 27 survivors in this location and 18 in the Kaya Godoma location.
Preserving our culture
Preserving Mijikenda Culture & Heritage
We pride ourselves in our efforts to preserve our Mijikenda culture and heritage as this is a vital excercise in making sure we prepare the next generation. One of our biggest achievements in this area was in working with the government of Kenya to officially acknowledge Mekatilili Wa Menza as one of the key freedom fighters and officially commission her monument at Uhuru garden. This was a passion project that took almost 20 years to officially effect this change.
Annual cultural events
Hosting Annual Cultural Events
In 2011, after preaching peace by holding peace walks and interfaith inter-communal prayers, we realised there was an ever increasing problem of extrajudicial killings of the elderly in the name of witchcraft. After doing civic education campaigns and highlighting the problem through various media including the press and peace-walks we realised the elderly who survived these acts had nowhere to escape to. This compelled MADCA to add a rescue wing to the existing Resource and Cultural Center named after Mekatilili wa Menza, the colonial resistance heroine who started the Giriama uprising of 1913/1914. After two years we decided to start a second Centre in Ganze at Mrima wa ndege to meet the growing demand. We currently house 27 survivors in this location and 18 in the Kaya Godoma location.