Browsing: East Africa

The World Rally Championship traditionally descends on Kenya every year, when thousands of pleasure-seeking fans head to the main action in Naivasha. As African Stream’s Wambura…

Kenyans will remember 2024 for President William Ruto’s extravagant state visit to the US in May, during which Joe Biden announced that Congress was working on…

Mere years after presiding over the Nuremberg trials, Britain was unleashing the same horror on their colonies in Africa. During the struggle for independence in Kenya,…

The traditional, bright and colourful Rwandan art form of Imigongo is being revived after almost disappearing during the country’s genocide in 1994. Looking at these beautiful…

Let’s make banana beer. Africans were using locally available crops to brew beer long before Europeans introduced their own techniques, but East Africans stand out in…

Bread is at the heart of politics across the world. It represents labour, life and livelihoods. Ruling classes down the ages have always offered ‘bread and…

The Lalibela churches in Ethiopia are a complex of religious buildings that were skillfully carved out of stone in the 12th century. The churches are not…

Aside from Palestinians, Ethiopian Jews have faced their own form of ethnic cleansing in the Zionist state. For decades, Israel hustled to bring Ethiopian Jews to…

In our end-of-year review, William Sakawa takes us through the Kenyan protests against William Ruto’s government. The June-July protests in Kenya traced back to reforms the…

A much-anticipated peace summit between Central African rivals Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) flopped when Rwandan President Paul Kagame failed to turn…