The Africana Voice

09/12/2026

John Khaminwa turned 90 last week and marked the milestone the way few 90-year-olds do: with a live keyboard, a Luhya folk song, and a dance across his Lavington law office floor. Five decades of practice, two Moi-era detentions, and cases from Raila Odinga to the S.M. Otieno burial dispute. What do you remember about his work?

John Khaminwa has pulled off something most people can only imagine. He turned 90, kept up a demanding law practice, and still had the energy to dance at his own birthday party. The Kenyan lawyer marked the milestone on September 10, capping five decades of practicing law on his own terms. Videos fr...

09/06/2026

Uganda Prepares to Bury King Oyo as Nine-Day Mourning Period Begins
The Omukama of Tooro, once the world's youngest reigning monarch, was crowned at age 3 and died at 34 while undergoing cancer treatment in the United States. He will be laid to rest at the Karambi Royal Tombs in Uganda.

Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, the Omukama of Tooro and once the world’s youngest reigning monarch, died on August 27 in the United States at age 34. He will be buried on his coronation anniversary, September 12, 2026. The young king’s body arrived in Uganda on September 4, opening nine day...

09/06/2026

Ruto’s Xenophobic War on Foreign Hawkers Is a Distraction From His Own Jobs Failure
In an act of brazen hypocrisy, the president who built a foreign policy on exporting Kenyan labor now wants to restrict foreign labor at home.

 President William Ruto has ordered a crackdown on foreigners running small businesses in Kenya. Ruto directed the Ministry of Investments, Trade and Industry to begin enforcement as early as September 7. The target is hawkers and small shop owners who are not Kenyan citizens. Ruto Draws a Line K...

08/31/2026

The History of Afrophobia in Africa, How the Pattern Was Built
From slavery to the present, Afrophobia has taken different forms, but the impact remains.

This is Part 1 of 2 of this report. There’s a saying that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Africa carries a history rich, complex, and painful enough to have undermined its own unity again and again, on the road toward the dream of pan-Africanism. These two parts trace...

08/24/2026

Paul Biya, Cameroon’s Absentee President Who Refuses to Leave

After 44 years in power, Biya has presided over a weak economy, corruption at the top of government, and the dismantling of nearly every institution meant to hold him accountable. His latest absence is testing what remains.

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya left the country on June 7 for what his office called a brief private stay in Europe. Ten weeks later, at 93, he has not returned, and his government will not say when he might. The absence is not really the story. The system that made it possible to govern from...

08/23/2026

Anti-Migrant Myths in South Africa: What the Evidence Actually Shows

Six claims that drive much of South Africa's anti-migrant sentiment. The evidence complicates more than it confirms, and the courts have now weighed in.

Six claims recur most often in South Africa’s anti-migrant rhetoric. Foreign-owned spaza shops are poisoning children. Immigrants spread disease. Immigrants overwhelm hospitals, schools, and housing. Immigrants take South African jobs and drive down wages. Undocumented immigrants drain public serv...

08/23/2026

Congo’s Ebola Death Toll Passes 2,000 as Conflict, Distrust and Underfunding Widen the Outbreak

WHO says the outbreak could become the worst Ebola epidemic ever recorded if it is not brought under control. The Kenyan facility built to receive exposed Americans remains suspended, though it has quietly housed some. The health workers fighting the outbreak at its source say they still are not being paid.

https://www.africanavoice.com/health/congos-ebola-death-toll-passes-2000-as-conflict-distrust-and-underfunding-widen-the-outbreak/

08/23/2026

Eswatini, Rwanda, Ghana and Uganda Among Countries Cutting Deals for Trump's Deportees

These third-country deportation deals are becoming a defining feature of U.S. immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, and African governments are increasingly the ones signing on.

Many people around the world have never heard of Eswatini. The tiny southern African kingdom is now holding at least 30 people deported from the United States. That is part of a widening web of deals that has paid African governments more than $32 million to take migrants Washington cannot send home...

08/23/2026

Seven citizens weigh in on the former deputy president's State of the Nation style address, from praise for his boldness to alarm over unproven claims tied to Raila Odinga's death.

https://www.africanavoice.com/all-news/kenya-elections-2027/kenyans-grade-gachaguas-combative-ruto-at-4-address/

08/23/2026

Regulators cleared the tomato farms blamed for 16 elephant deaths, and a new state audit shows why Kenya's pesticide oversight cannot yet answer the question that matters.
https://www.africanavoice.com/all-news/kenya-news/cyanide-poisoning-suspected-in-deaths-of-16-amboseli-elephants/