Opinion

The Kenyan government is throwing its chips in with the west, assuming that it will enable it to its economic woes but he’s repeating mistakes of old.  

For the last generation, fadhi ku dirir was a chance to get together, chat, reminisce and spend time with friends. For this generation it’s a coping strategy for despair. 

A major factor that distinguishes the South African liberation Struggle from that of Palestine was the support the SA movement received from the larger Arab and African communities.

“There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.” — Christopher Morley

The 1974 OAU summit in Mogadishu revealed a disunited continent pulling apart, struggling to reconcile its competing blocs 

Somalia and Ethiopia no longer function like other sovereign states in the international system, and this has become a semi-permanent reality  

South Africa and Algeria have relied on diplomatic and judicial activism to end the war in Gaza, but African leaders more widely have distanced themselves from western double standards on human rights   

In North Africa, religion is being used to spread political and cultural influence.

The war in Sudan is also a war on the Sudanese body, reconstructing it as a site of violence and conquest