The nose from Samburu: Consolata, a Kenyan perfume prodigy eyes US luxury market
She can identify a perfume note the way a maestro hears a single violin. Now, in a small American to...
African Diaspora
Mwabili’s courts of hope: Former Kwale High School basketball star opens us on the future of the game
NAIROBI
The first thing former Kwale High School basketball star Peter Mwabili tells you is that ...
Tanzania’s tourism: Anderson says boom needs bigger ambition
The world is coming to Tanzania, and industry veterans say the country must prepare to meet the mome...
Kenyan in Diaspora: Pius Kimani and the tough winter that tested his American Dream
He left Kenya with hope, met winter with shock, and now builds a future with the stubbornness of a m...
Benga block party in LA: How Bien turned the 2026 NBA All-Star Weekend into his own global show
The palm trees of Los Angeles were swaying, but the rhythm on the ground was pure Nairobi
As the ...
Africans want elections but don’t trust electoral management bodies to ensure they’re free and fair
The new report, based on 50,961 interviews across 38 African countries in 2024/2025, shows that a la...
The weight of the waves: A brother’s final journey
BY HAKEEM TOURAY
The air on December 4, 2020, carried that familiar Gambian stillness, the kind t...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a literary icon has rested
When you tell these modern-day colonists you speak Kikuyu, Dholuo or Kalenjin, they exclaim ‘Wow!’ B...
I moved to Ghana to escape US racism
Kambon has now built a successful life in the place that was once at the heart of the slave trade, a...
What it’s like to be an African in the US
What it's like to be an African in the US
African celebrities like actress Lupita Nyong'o and com...