Ruto’s deportation of rights activists echoes Jomo Kenyatta’s rejection of influential Black thinkers Walter Rodney and Frantz Fanon
Walter Rodney had come from Guyana with a scholar’s training and a revolutionary’s concern for ordinary people. He had studied Africa deeply, not as a dead place in old books but as a living source of memory, pride, and resistance.
Everything wrong with America: Rosa Parks after-story is a case of Black heroism being praised in public and abandoned in private
After the boycott, Rosa Parks entered one of the hardest chapters of her life, marked by unemployment, threats, illness, displacement and financial instability. Yet even there, she kept organising, kept speaking and kept widening the meaning of freedom.
