Browsing: East Africa

Kenya’s placed its bet with the US, abandoning a 60-year non-alignment policy that brought benefits from both the Western and Eastern blocs of nations. The decision…

Kenya’s president wants the God squad to help rid his country of bandits. William Ruto says violence in the volatile Rift Valley should be tackled by…

Israeli President Isaac Herzog thanked Rwandan President Paul Kagame for being a ‘true’ friend of Israel during the 30th anniversary commemoration of the Rwanda genocide on…

On 3 April, Uganda’s constitutional court rejected activists’ petition seeking to annul or suspend the 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act, which they say violated human rights and constitutionally…

In this 2021 speech, Pan-African scholar Professor PLO Lumumba gave a comprehensive history of Pan-Africanism, from its infancy to the present. He added what Pan-Africanism could…

Do you know the story of John C. Robinson? He was an African-American pilot who volunteered to help Ethiopia in its resistance against Italian fascist colonialism.…

Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o was in for a surprise when she met in April 2023 with Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., on his PBS…

From Palestinian flags held high in Abuja to drums beating a thousand times for a ceasefire in Gaza, here’s our weekly photo dump Abuja, Nigeria -…

Kenya’s US-backed plan to send police to Haiti has hit another roadblock. Nairobi has halted the deployment of 1,000 officers following the resignation of unelected Haitian…

In this episode of ‘Going Underground,’ host Afshin Rattansi interviewed Professor PLO Lumumba, Pan-Africanist scholar and former director of the Kenya School of Law. They discussed…