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Articles by Laureen Akoa Wesonga
Market Shutdowns, Policy Failures and the Mishandling of Food Logistics
As Uhuru Kenyatta mounted a political comeback by campaigning against corruption, his family’s secret fortune was growing offshore, a massive new leak shows. At his annual State of the Nation address last fall, President Uhuru Kenyatta mounted the podium at Kenya’s Parliament to acknowledge that too many Kenyans live in poverty and too many officials loot the country’s public resources.
The Contested Narratives of a Dead Man’s Legacy
Growing up down south in the aftermath of the 1960s Negro Revolution in America was truly the best. During that period, three out of every four Black children in America were born in a two-parent home. By the 80s, that number would drop to one in every four. Education and opportunity were becoming more accessible to black and brown communities everywhere. It would be the force that would get us out of the hole history had placed us in.
MIND YOUR LANGUAGE: Roots of the crisis in Cameroon
I was born in 1988, eight years after Zimbabwe’s independence from British colonial rule. I am thus considered a “Born Free” — meaning one born after the liberation war. For a long time, particularly over the last two decades and the fraught turmoil we have endured as Zimbabweans, the term has been used to denigrate those of us who were born into freedom from colonial rule and did not experience the struggles of the liberation war. Robert Mugabe, for me, has always been a figure of ambivalence.
Missionaries or Mercenaries? How the Church in Kenya Lost Its Religion
As the world marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, it is a good time to reflect on the present schism between the clergy and the congregation in the Kenyan church. If the clergy is the proverbial shepherd and the congregation is the flock, then this shepherd has passively abdicated his duty and we need to discuss this.
Gloomy paradise: How it's like to live in the UK as a minority
ALSO READ: Why I resigned from a lucrative job to put sign language on TV- Luke Kizito Muleka Food here is flat (read horrible). UK is where taste buds come to die. And vegetables and fruits are expensive, you may want to carry supplements with you. You will notice that European culture while not as individualistic as the American one, it is also not as communal as Asian and African. These cultural differences will weigh on you at times. To keep your spirits high.
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