Netflix is the leading entertainment streaming service in the world and due to its increasing popularity, gone are the days of restricting oneself to a television set when watching your favorite show. Netflix has a client base of over 60 million members across 190 countries. The platform offers approximately 120 million hours of entertainment through television shows, documentaries, and feature films.…
Unhinged Trump Press Conference Suggests Sympathy for Extremists On Tuesday afternoon, United States President Donald Trump delivered his most bizarre and outrageous press conference yet. At a time when Americans are looking for guidance and leadership in the wake of a rally that featured far-right extremists who used Neo-Nazi imagery to spread a message of…
A number of African nations have been recently considering measures to take greater control of social media and internet usage domestically, and many of these proposals appear to be on the verge of censorship according to proponents of internet freedom. In comparison to the statutes enacted in China, internet freedom in most African countries is still far greater. Notably,…
Kenya and South Africa Finish Strong at the IAAF World Championships Surprise victories, stunning defeats, heartbreaks, and incredible levels of competition were among the highlights of the 2017 World Championships of the International Association of Athletics Federations, which finished in London on Sunday night. African athletes shone at the 2017 IAAF World Championships as Kenya…
Charlottesville and the Sad State of Racist Extremism in the United States A disastrously violent weekend in Charlottesville, a leafy university town in the Commonwealth of Virginia, has brought into focus the precarious issue of extreme American nationalism and intolerance. What started off as a political demonstration to protest the removal of a monument from…
Kenya is typically known for having some of the most beautiful sunsets in the world with majestic creatures like a proud herd of elephants gliding quietly through long grasses midday. The East African nation is an amazing place that offers ethnic diversity and a beautiful and active culture, but there are also numerous challenges that often keep its people struggling.…
FIFA rankings released on Thursday, August 10th took a positive turn for the Nigerian Super Eagles despite the fact that the country is currently being hit by political crisis. This movement upwards is highly welcome as the Super Eagle’s expected to play against Cameroon’s Indomitable Lions next month in the 2018 World Cup Qualifiers. The Indomitable…
Do you love elephants? Well August 12th is World Elephant Day, a day not solely for celebrating these beautiful creatures, but also to raise awareness about elephant conservation. Elephants are known for forming strong family bonds and researchers have found that “elephants are capable of complex thought and deep feeling” including grief; they are known to…
The Kenya Presidential seat was not only hotly contested, but proved to be bitterly divisive. The recalcitrant National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition claimed that the voting system had been hacked and thus, prevented their preferred candidate, Raila Odinga from clinching the much-coveted seat. Tension has been rising in the country throughout the week as…
At exactly 10:15 pm EAT on August 11th, 2017, incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta was re-elected as the President of Kenya with over 8 million votes. The long day finally ended with the Chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), Wafula Chebukati, announcing the election results at the Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi. The Kenyan general elections were…
For some, the third Monday of January means a 3-day weekend and nothing more. Before her death, MLK’s widow Coretta Scott King wrote movingly about what the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday really means on the King Center website: it is a day to celebrate and remember a great man, but more than that, it’s a…
There was a time when the Consumer Electronics Show was mostly a showcase of televisions, home theater systems, video game consoles, and assorted gadgets for household use. In recent years, however, the focus of CES has broadened to include major technology trends that go far beyond gadgets, and the 2018 CES has shown that this…
The vulgar remarks made by United States President Donald Trump on January 11 not only suggest a racist streak but also underscore how little he knows about the world around him. During a working session on the topic of immigration in the US,Trump reportedly described African nations as holes made in the ground for the…
Officials from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) had a tough choice to make when selecting the male player who would be designated the best footballer of the year in 2017. With the Continent producing lots of talent in the 21st century, CAF officials narrowed down their choices to three players whose careers in top…
