The loneliness of the Kenyan long distance runner
How the death of a very talented Kenyan marathon runner points to structural problems in the country's national running industry.
How the death of a very talented Kenyan marathon runner points to structural problems in the country's national running industry.
Kenyan activists raise their voices, placards and fists over US$500 million allocated but not yet spent for anti-retroviral medications. That’s a lot of money, drugs, and lost lives.
The video, "African Men. Hollywood Stereotypes," made by an American NGO, is part of the "Brand Africa" discourse that's all the rage now.
Pulitzer awarded Gettleman $10,000 for "his vivid reports, often at personal peril, on famine and conflict in East Africa."
Republican party propaganda wants to paint President Barack Obama’s Kenyan family as alien to America. In
I won’t bother to unpack this commercial, but this is exhibit A for the case against
They're making a film about "a love story set in Cape Town South Africa that chronicles the life of Leila, a young Cape Malay girl who falls in love with an American boy, Derek, who happens to be black."
Kenyan artist Rabbit is working hard to get the word out about his new album Orutu
My latest list of new African films or films with African topics. From now on I’ll
Mutombo, a former NBA star, seems in way over his head in a diamond scam. But some of the allegations cited in media reports don't add up.
An older Cabo Snoop tune (kuduristas in Angola and elsewhere have been dancing to ‘Zagala’ since
Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012. What does it mean to lose the soundtrack to one’s life?
So rapper 50 Cent (accompanied by American journalists) was in Somalia and Kenya this week to
What’s going on at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria (GFATM)? It recently
The Samburu of northern Kenya are pastoralists, and they are under attack. According to Survival International,
Three Kenyan videos to remember today’s Independence Day. Three popular tunes for our Independence meme. A
‘Kichwateli’ (‘TV head’ < Swahili) is one of the many chapters in the BLNRB project. Contributors
Maathai, who died this week, stood up to the dictatorship of Daniel Arap Moi, and the global regimes of the IMF, the World Bank and all the rest.
Over the last two years, the NRBLN – BLNRB project has brought together German and Kenyan
In The New York Times columnit's world, Kenya is just another Third World site of pathos, despair, degradation, and fallen women waiting to be saved.