Author: Dennis Kahohi

What should democracy mean in the African context? We’ve juxtaposed two visions – the first, that of Kenya’s William Ruto, delivering a scripted condemnation of last…

War is hell. While most of us are fortunate enough to witness it on social media, radio or television, it is far from abstract for millions…

On 14 January, outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s speech on the ‘Middle East,’ or what we call West Asia, was interrupted several times by…

Evidence that the United Arab Emirates has a blood-stained hand in the war in Sudan is mounting. The Sudanese army has seized another batch of weapons…

15 January is John Chilembwe Day in Malawi. It honours the anti-colonial hero of that name who led an uprising against the British in early 1915.…

The grim reaper is sweeping Kenyan social media – where a ‘funeral cortège’ of AI-generated images of a dead President William Ruto has gone viral. Some…

Julia Sebutinde, the only African judge who serves on the International Court of Justice, made headlines in January 2024 for voting in favour of Israel regarding…

Over a century ago, on 15 January 1918, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser was born. Nasser was an ambitious Pan-African and Pan-Arab who sought to return…

In his powerful clapback to French President Emmanuel Macron’s 6 January disparaging comments about Africans, Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré left no stone unturned on 13…

Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) called ‘The Economist’ a ‘journal that speaks for the British millionaires.’ It proves his point with this headline, which pins Africa’s…