Charles Onyango-Obbo

From Nairobi’s wartime workshops to today’s farmers feeling the pinch of Middle East conflict, East Africa’s history shows that global wars ripple all the way to local markets.

Africa reacts with outrage as South Africa is snubbed from the 2026 G7 summit, highlighting the West’s selective diplomacy and double standards.

Caption for the landscape image: Something just broke out in Cameroon that would, surprisingly, be unusual in Kenya.

Museveni’s ‘moon versus insects’ rhetoric exposes how Africa’s scientific potential is being grounded by politics that reward loyalty over learning.

While Africa might be suffering from global shocks, it is also adjusting to them.

Kenya’s 2027 election is emerging as a volatile Ruto–Gachagua showdown, with ethnic tensions and a fractured opposition raising regional stakes.

The real gamble for Ruto, Museveni and Dangote centres on whether they can finish this 20th-century industrial project quickly enough to survive the 21st-century energy transition.

As Dangote told the Nairobi summit, Africa must industrialise to stop “exporting jobs and importing poverty

Africa will only build prosperity when it starts acting as one vast economic engine.

Kenya saw protests across the country on May 19 driven by anger over steep fuel-price increases linked to the Persian Gulf crisis and disruption of oil supplies through the Strait of Hormuz, which have sharply raised transport fares and the cost of basic goods.