Browsing: East Africa

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…

The M23 (March 23 Movement) is among over 100 armed rebel groups in the mineral-rich eastern DRC. However, the M23 is arguably the most significant threat…

Femicide is the intentional killing of a woman or a girl by a man with a gender-related motive. Africa is one of the regions that is…

In a twist of irony, while African countries are scrambling to enforce Western imperialism in Haiti through a planned deployment of Kenyan police, a country further…

Kenya’s president Ruto and Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry have signed an agreement to deploy Kenyan police to the Caribbean island nation as part of a…

​Rwanda is less than a tenth the size of the UK but is home to about 14-million people – that’s almost one-fifth of the UK’s population.…