Busia Senator and activist lawyer Okiya Omtatah recently declared his intent to run for president of Kenya in 2027. Over his career, Omtatah has sued multinationals, government, politicians, and many others on behalf of the public interest and promises to focus on “anti-corruption measures” and executing the Constitution. We’ve spent many hours helping people understand […]
Palestine is personal for writer, Yahia Lababidi. His Palestinian grandmother, Rabiha Dajani — educator, activist and social worker — was forced to flee her ancestral home in Jerusalem at gunpoint some eighty years ago. As an Arab-American, Lababidi feels deeply betrayed by the USA’s blind support of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. In Palestine Wail, he reminds […]
In the remnants of a fractured UK, England is on the brink of collapse where far-right militias rise to power. As Islamophobia and English nationalism ignite brutal violence, 19-year-old Marah Sultana is thrust into a fight for survival. Hunted by forces seeking control, she carries a secret powerful enough to change the course of the […]
As many of our listeners will know, there have been racist uprisings across England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. The trigger for the riots was disinformation: that three small girls stabbed to death in Southport on 29 July had been killed by a Muslim asylum seeker. In fact, the suspected killer was born in Cardiff to […]
In this second interview, Kali Akuno, co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, Mississippi, is back to update us on the implications of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. His view is that there is a strong likelihood now that Trump will win the elections. The Pentagon and others may well resist the strategy of the […]
Kali Akuno, co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson https://cooperationjackson.org, Mississippi, speaks to Firoze Manji about the way in which the US right has organized and developed a well-thought strategy for taking control and transforming the entire political and social structure, even to the extent of planning changes to the US constitution. He discusses the implications […]
Joe Kobuthi, senior editor of The Elephant (elephant.info), speaks to Firoze Manji on the background to the uprisings in Kenya. To understand why there have been such mobilizations, we have to look at the history of Kenya, the struggle for independence, the loss of real independence, the domination of neoliberal capitalism, and the situation in […]
Zarina you have left usTo be with us always You were there when workers marched for adequate wagesYou were there when peasants marched to defend their landsYou marched with all who march to demand adequate sheltersYou marched with students rejecting education for sale and profitWho demanded education for self-confidence and pride in us Kenyan peopleYou, […]
A statement from Publishers for Palestine calling for a ceasefire and denouncing repression of Palestinian solidarity. November 3, 2023 We invite publishers, editors, and writers around the world who stand for justice, freedom of expression, and the power of the written word, to sign this letter and join our global solidarity collective, Publishers for Palestine. We […]
I met with Lina Andrew (from Tanzania), Ange David Baimey (from Côte d’Ivoire), and Susan Nakacwa (from Uganda) in Colombia while attending a meeting of the GRAIN board in Colombia. The interview was also broadcast on Amandla! Radio, CKUT 90.3 FM
As John Holloway described the book (https://darajapress.com/publication/a… “A fabulous book. Just read the introduction and you realise that this is a special book, not just because of its theme, but because of the way that the theme is approached: politically, personally, critically. A book on the Kurdish revolution, a book from the inside, by someone […]
Amazon is building its African HQ on a floodplain in Cape Town at the confluence of the Liesbeek and Black Rivers and the sacred ancestral land of the Indigenous Khoi and San people. As the site of the first colonial bloodshed and resistance, this site is of historical importance to all people of Southern Africa, […]
Minoo Kyaa, Gathanga Ndung’u and Gacheke Gachihi, Brian Mathenge, and Wangina Wahome talk to Firoze Manji, Daraja Press, about the civic uprisings and the killings of unarmed civilians by the police in Kenya in recent days and the role of Raila Odinga, the leader of the opposition party, the AZIMIO coalition. Minoo Kyaa is a […]
Nikesha Breeze has taken pages from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, taken his words, and forced them to leave his colonized mind. She has made the words her own in poetic form. She illuminates the invisible Black voices inside, a radical, surgical, and unapologetic Black appropriation, at the same time as a careful birthing and […]
Our guest is none other than Prof Ngugi wa Thiongo, Novelist, Theorist, Pioneering decolonial writer, and distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California, Irvine. In today’s broadcast, Prof Ngugi and Dr Mwangi will be exploring Language as protest as well as other the future of Maendeleo in Africa, all in the context of […]
The recently published book Breaking the Silence on NGOs in Africa by the Kenya Organic Intellectuals Network is a really important text that has come out of Africa, providing thought-provoking perspectives on NGOs and their implications. Through this webinar, we have the chance to hear what remarkable African individuals like Lewis Maghanga, Gacheke Gachihi, Rodgers […]
This recording is co-produced by Daraja Press and Amandla! Radio. It is an extract from 9 July (Tuesday) HK 21:00 – 23:00 (GMT 13:00 – 15:00) African People’s Struggles for Liberation Moderators: Firoze MANJI (Daraja Press, Canada/Kenya) SIT Tsui Jade Margaret (Southwest University, China). The full lectures can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-pMGappofI Samar Al-Bulushi is […]
Despite its role in the fight for Kenya's independence and the post-colonial struggles for liberation, Mathare's story is often overlooked. As Gathanga writes in his book, most people outside the settlement associate the name Mathare with the mental hospital bordering the settlement. For others, their narrative of Mathare is one of pity, considering that the place is known to house the urban poor. But Gathanga's story of Mathare is different. As he writes, this book is a counter-narrative of Mathare and one written from a proud insider perspective. It is refreshing to have a retelling of Mathare’s story, especially one from an insider's view. When people tell their own stories, they get to rewrite their history, and this is evident in Gathanga's book. Getting to tell our own stories also moves us from the objects of our story to the subjects. It prevents us from being othered in our history. Gathanga’s book offers the untold story of Mathare, one of Nairobi's most significant informal settlements, unraveling the role of Mathare in the fight for Kenya’s independence and the subsequent betrayals and delayed promises of the post-colonial regimes.
Busia Senator and activist lawyer Okiya Omtatah recently declared his intent to run for president of Kenya in 2027. Over his career, Omtatah has sued multinationals, government, politicians, and many others on behalf of the public interest and promises to focus on “anti-corruption measures” and executing the Constitution. We’ve spent many hours helping people understand […]
Palestine is personal for writer, Yahia Lababidi. His Palestinian grandmother, Rabiha Dajani — educator, activist and social worker — was forced to flee her ancestral home in Jerusalem at gunpoint some eighty years ago. As an Arab-American, Lababidi feels deeply betrayed by the USA’s blind support of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. In Palestine Wail, he reminds […]
In the remnants of a fractured UK, England is on the brink of collapse where far-right militias rise to power. As Islamophobia and English nationalism ignite brutal violence, 19-year-old Marah Sultana is thrust into a fight for survival. Hunted by forces seeking control, she carries a secret powerful enough to change the course of the […]
As many of our listeners will know, there have been racist uprisings across England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. The trigger for the riots was disinformation: that three small girls stabbed to death in Southport on 29 July had been killed by a Muslim asylum seeker. In fact, the suspected killer was born in Cardiff to […]
In this second interview, Kali Akuno, co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, Mississippi, is back to update us on the implications of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. His view is that there is a strong likelihood now that Trump will win the elections. The Pentagon and others may well resist the strategy of the […]
Kali Akuno, co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson https://cooperationjackson.org, Mississippi, speaks to Firoze Manji about the way in which the US right has organized and developed a well-thought strategy for taking control and transforming the entire political and social structure, even to the extent of planning changes to the US constitution. He discusses the implications […]
Joe Kobuthi, senior editor of The Elephant (elephant.info), speaks to Firoze Manji on the background to the uprisings in Kenya. To understand why there have been such mobilizations, we have to look at the history of Kenya, the struggle for independence, the loss of real independence, the domination of neoliberal capitalism, and the situation in […]
Zarina you have left usTo be with us always You were there when workers marched for adequate wagesYou were there when peasants marched to defend their landsYou marched with all who march to demand adequate sheltersYou marched with students rejecting education for sale and profitWho demanded education for self-confidence and pride in us Kenyan peopleYou, […]
A statement from Publishers for Palestine calling for a ceasefire and denouncing repression of Palestinian solidarity. November 3, 2023 We invite publishers, editors, and writers around the world who stand for justice, freedom of expression, and the power of the written word, to sign this letter and join our global solidarity collective, Publishers for Palestine. We […]
I met with Lina Andrew (from Tanzania), Ange David Baimey (from Côte d’Ivoire), and Susan Nakacwa (from Uganda) in Colombia while attending a meeting of the GRAIN board in Colombia. The interview was also broadcast on Amandla! Radio, CKUT 90.3 FM
As John Holloway described the book (https://darajapress.com/publication/a… “A fabulous book. Just read the introduction and you realise that this is a special book, not just because of its theme, but because of the way that the theme is approached: politically, personally, critically. A book on the Kurdish revolution, a book from the inside, by someone […]
Amazon is building its African HQ on a floodplain in Cape Town at the confluence of the Liesbeek and Black Rivers and the sacred ancestral land of the Indigenous Khoi and San people. As the site of the first colonial bloodshed and resistance, this site is of historical importance to all people of Southern Africa, […]
Minoo Kyaa, Gathanga Ndung’u and Gacheke Gachihi, Brian Mathenge, and Wangina Wahome talk to Firoze Manji, Daraja Press, about the civic uprisings and the killings of unarmed civilians by the police in Kenya in recent days and the role of Raila Odinga, the leader of the opposition party, the AZIMIO coalition. Minoo Kyaa is a […]
Nikesha Breeze has taken pages from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, taken his words, and forced them to leave his colonized mind. She has made the words her own in poetic form. She illuminates the invisible Black voices inside, a radical, surgical, and unapologetic Black appropriation, at the same time as a careful birthing and […]
Our guest is none other than Prof Ngugi wa Thiongo, Novelist, Theorist, Pioneering decolonial writer, and distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California, Irvine. In today’s broadcast, Prof Ngugi and Dr Mwangi will be exploring Language as protest as well as other the future of Maendeleo in Africa, all in the context of […]
The recently published book Breaking the Silence on NGOs in Africa by the Kenya Organic Intellectuals Network is a really important text that has come out of Africa, providing thought-provoking perspectives on NGOs and their implications. Through this webinar, we have the chance to hear what remarkable African individuals like Lewis Maghanga, Gacheke Gachihi, Rodgers […]
This recording is co-produced by Daraja Press and Amandla! Radio. It is an extract from 9 July (Tuesday) HK 21:00 – 23:00 (GMT 13:00 – 15:00) African People’s Struggles for Liberation Moderators: Firoze MANJI (Daraja Press, Canada/Kenya) SIT Tsui Jade Margaret (Southwest University, China). The full lectures can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-pMGappofI Samar Al-Bulushi is […]
Zarina you have left usTo be with us always You were there when workers marched for adequate wagesYou were there when peasants marched to defend their landsYou marched with all who march to demand adequate sheltersYou marched with students rejecting education for sale and profitWho demanded education for self-confidence and pride in us Kenyan peopleYou, […]
A statement from Publishers for Palestine calling for a ceasefire and denouncing repression of Palestinian solidarity. November 3, 2023 We invite publishers, editors, and writers around the world who stand for justice, freedom of expression, and the power of the written word, to sign this letter and join our global solidarity collective, Publishers for Palestine. We […]
Despite its role in the fight for Kenya's independence and the post-colonial struggles for liberation, Mathare's story is often overlooked. As Gathanga writes in his book, most people outside the settlement associate the name Mathare with the mental hospital bordering the settlement. For others, their narrative of Mathare is one of pity, considering that the place is known to house the urban poor. But Gathanga's story of Mathare is different. As he writes, this book is a counter-narrative of Mathare and one written from a proud insider perspective. It is refreshing to have a retelling of Mathare’s story, especially one from an insider's view. When people tell their own stories, they get to rewrite their history, and this is evident in Gathanga's book. Getting to tell our own stories also moves us from the objects of our story to the subjects. It prevents us from being othered in our history. Gathanga’s book offers the untold story of Mathare, one of Nairobi's most significant informal settlements, unraveling the role of Mathare in the fight for Kenya’s independence and the subsequent betrayals and delayed promises of the post-colonial regimes.
Nikesha Breeze has taken pages from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, taken his words, and forced them to leave his colonized mind. She has made the words her own in poetic form. She illuminates the invisible Black voices inside, a radical, surgical, and unapologetic Black appropriation, at the same time as a careful birthing and […]
This recording is co-produced by Daraja Press and Amandla! Radio. It is an extract from 9 July (Tuesday) HK 21:00 – 23:00 (GMT 13:00 – 15:00) African People’s Struggles for Liberation Moderators: Firoze MANJI (Daraja Press, Canada/Kenya) SIT Tsui Jade Margaret (Southwest University, China). The full lectures can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-pMGappofI Samar Al-Bulushi is […]
