When is the process of having a new KER starting? What can we say Ker Otondi achieved for the Luo? What are we looking for in the next KER? I have gone…
Eugen Fischer was a German physician and anthropologist who gained notoriety for his work in eugenics and racial hygiene. He is best known for conducting medical experiments on the Herero and Namaqua…
Four years after his return to the ring in 1970, Ali traveled to Zaire(DRC) to fight Heavyweight champ George Foreman. The country’s autocratic leader, Mobutu Sese Seko, personally paid each fighter’s $5…
In November 1895, the acting commander of Fort Smith (Kikuyu), Thomas Gilkison, dispatched a food caravan of some 1,150 men to Ravine. The men were to replenish supplies needed by the advance…
World-famous American comedian Kevin Hart’s show in Cairo was canceled last month on Monday, 20 February. Scheduled to have taken place on Tuesday 21 February, the show would have marked Hart’s first…
Syokimau was a great Kamba prophetess and medicine woman born in the 1800s in Iveti Hills, present-day Machakos town. Rumours have it that she sprung out of a tree as no one…
On August 26, 1903, the founding father of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, proposed British East Africa as a safe haven for Jews, speaking at the Sixth Zionist Congress. Herzl brought this proposal before…
American activist Malcom X idolised the Mau Mau and the Kenyan people’s struggle for independence against the British Empire, a struggle he described as the first Black Revolution during the slavery and…
By the 19th century, after the Berlin conference, there was great European hunger for the resources and lands of Africa. The Trans Atlantic slave trade was no longer profitable for the Europeans…
Civilization did not start in European countries and the rest of the world did not wait in darkness for the Europeans to bring the light. Most history books in the last five…