Confronting reality of Trump II in Africa: What second term means for Kenya, the world
By Bob Wekesa Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as the 47th US President tomorrow. By Tuesday analysis will shift fromexpectations to the realities of the second four-year Trump administration. Observers of US and globalpolitics will drill into his inauguration
African perspectives in Trump’s inaugural speech
IMAGE CREDIT: AP By Bob Wekesa On nearly all fronts, the expectation of a return to President Donald Trump’s first-term foreign policy is aself-fulfilling prophecy. Before we even get to the flurry of executive orders that have reset the USengagement with the
How Africa is caught up in global power play as tensions rise this year
Image Credit: Euractiv By Bob Wekesa Winding down 2024 and welcoming 2025 is a space-time moment to reflect on Africa and the world. In2024, global tensions from previous years and decades continued unabated. It is as if the change in time did not
In the Makueni space object incident, questions for Africa’s space exploration
Image Credit: Triff/Shutterstock.com By Bob Wekesa A curious incident involving outer space, a Kenyan village, and a Kenyan space management entityoccurred as the country bid farewell to 2024 and ushered in 2025. Seemingly bizarre, the incident isprimed with global and celestial significance. On
Announcing the Launch of the Africa-US Smart Cities Lab Bulletin 2024! 🌍🏙️
We’re excited to introduce the Africa-US Smart Cities Lab Bulletin 2024, a comprehensive publication that delves into the dynamic world of smart and sustainable city development across Africa and the United States. The bulletin, produced by the African Centre for the
The Kampala G77 and Non-Aligned Movement Summits: African Agenda Perspectives
The 2024 global summits season begins in Kampala, Uganda in January 2024 with aglobal south agenda. President Yoweri Museveni will host the nineteenth Non-AlignedMovement (NAM) Heads of State summit from 15 to 20 January[i]. This will be followedby the Third
Why the Amplifying African Voices for Strategic Action Conference?
Themed on advancing African agency towards global powers, the conference will be held fromOctober 31 to November 1, 2024, at Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya, as a partnership of theAfrican Centre for the Study of the United States at the University
Special Report, September 2024: Chief Albert Luthuli and the American Anti-Apartheid Movement
This talk was given by Dr. Larry Shore at the Luthuli Museum on August 20th, 2024, on the occasion of the museum's 20th anniversary. Top: Albert Luthuli Bottom Left: Martin Luther King Jr. Bottom Right: Robert Kennedy America has always had a
Africa’s opportunity in the summits by global power
IMAGE: China Global South Project By Dr Bob Wekesa After the Forum on China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing in early September, many Africananalysts have penned think pieces celebrating Africa-China relations. This mirrors the starry-eyedadulation by African thinkers based on the Africa-plus-one
WESTBURY RISING: PROMOTING YOURSELF – CEO of Your Lives for the Makings of a Better Community
Source: https://www.konecentennialfoundation.org/westbury-youth-centre By Blair M. Proctor, PhD Approaching thirty years of the post-Apartheid era (2024), the predominantly Coloured community of Westbury continues to wrestle with the identity-formation of “not being Black enough and White enough.”[1] Geographically, Westbury is a township located within