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…
Mytela Kasanda, also known as Mirambo, was a man of many titles. Apart from being a traditional king, he was a warrior leader, a state builder, and a modernizer who helped revolutionized…
Sally Hemings was born into slavery in Virginia. After the death of their master, Hemings family was inherited by the daughter of their master, Martha, who had married Thomas Jefferson and lived…
Kenya and England have a bad history of war and battle and nobody puts that better than Shiraz Durrani. I would ask Sunak to look at it. Incidentally, I first met Shiraz…
Christian churches of 4th Century Africa were independent of Western Imperialism. However, invaders of Africa from the West found their penetration into the continent easier under the banners of Religion. Full advantage…
It took them a few hundred years, 232 to be exact, but finally, the US has a black woman in the Supreme Court and even then it barely happened because the right-wing…