Kenya’s shilling is gaining value, but don’t expect it to last
By Odongo Kodongo Shortly after Kenya’s 2022 elections, the shilling depreciated rapidly against the US dollar – the country’s main currency for international transactions –...
Africa can no longer be lectured
Interview on Africa’s position in the world with Murithi Mutiga, head of programs with the International Crisis Group in Nairobi Africa hardly played a role...
“What an irony that Ethiopia is now the last country in Africa to become democratic” – Eskinder Nega
Eskinder Nega is tense. The Ethiopian journalist travels next week to meet his eleven-year-old son Nafkot in the United States after being in captivity...
Kenya has become a “bandit economy”, says Chief Justice Willy Mutunga
Africa is at war with its cartels, says Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice of Kenya
Chinua Achebe: Peaceful world my sincerest wish
Recently, the classic African novel “Things Fall Apart” by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe was translated into Persian by Ali Hodavand and released in Iran. Nasrin Pourhamrang, Editor-in-Chief of Hatef Weekly Magazine interviewed the author.
Times on Kenyan TV have surely changed: Soap Opera shocks in a country where just 25 years ago a President banned American TV programmes for showing bikini-clad ladies performing some mildly sensual dances. A new century, a new president. A new TV.
