African News Review

Host Adesoji Iginla is joined by Aya Fubara Eneli and Milton Allimadi to look at the 2026 US midterm elections and why their effects reach Africa.
 
The panel also covers the US decision to remove South Africa and Rwanda from AGOA trade preferences, and Kemi Badenoch's claim that African nations should apologise for slavery.

Takeaways

*Aya Fubara Eneli says Black voter turnout in her community was lower than hoped, despite a blue wave nationally and in Texas. She discusses local races, representation, and the work that follows elections.
*Milton Allimadi discusses the Michigan S...

This week’s episode of African News Review covers the week's African and diaspora news. 

Topics include a Ghanaian student's killing in the Bronx, South Africa's anti-foreigner protests, Algeria's troop deployment to Niger, and a US-backed miner's bid to survey DR Congo. 

Host, Adesoji Iginla, was joined by Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq., an author and host of Rethinking Freedom and Women in Resistance, and later by Comrade Milton Allimadi. 

Takeaways

*US election eve: heavy political advertising, early voting turnout, and a Reuters report that administration officials are planning ways around Congress
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This episode is a wide-ranging news review anchored in African agency, decolonial history, and current events. Adesoji Iginla hosts Aya Fubara Eneli and Milton Allimadi for a sharply political conversation that moves from U.S. elections to East African cult abuse, Zimbabwe’s land question, and vaccine research ethics in Guinea-Bissau.

The discussion explores how colonial legacies, elite power, and economic desperation shape everything from religious exploitation to land ownership and medical research. 

The guests return to a central message: Africans must read history critically, protect their communities, and resist narratives that erase their agency.

This episode brings together Adesoji Iginla, Aya Fubara Eneli, and Milton Allimadi for a wide-ranging discussion of African politics, anti-imperial struggle, education, and media bias. 

The conversation centers on Thomas Sankara’s warning about debt and dependency, while also exploring U.S. elections, French student protests, Marco Rubio’s rhetoric about civilisation, and a debate over AI and African authorship.

The panel connects historical analysis to present-day politics, arguing that Africa and the diaspora must reject colonial narratives, build self-reliance, and stop waiting for outside validation.

Takeaways

*Aya Fubara Eneli urges liste...

Adesoji Iginla is joined by Aya Fubara Eneli and Milton Allimadi for a discussion of African agency, Western power, and the forces shaping today’s headlines.

The panel examines Zimbabwe’s health-data dispute with the United States, Ethiopia’s push for Red Sea access, the launch of an African credit rating agency, and a Kenyan documentary about land stolen during British colonial rule.

Across these stories, the conversation asks: who benefits, whose voices are left out, and what does meaningful sovereignty require?

Takeaways

*Zimbabwe and health-data sovereignty: The panel discus...

Adesoji Iginla is joined by Aya Fubara Eneli and Milton Allimadi to discuss how African-led projects are shaping debates about sovereignty, resources, media, and education.

The conversation moves from Kenyan grassroots innovations and Burkina Faso’s new gold refinery to land rights around a proposed oil refinery in Lamu.

The panel also examines Tafuk TV, the challenge of building independent African media, and how colonial legacies and foreign funding influence higher education.

Takeaways

*Aya Fubara Eneli highlights Kenyan innovators turning plastic waste into paving blocks and invasive water hyacinth in...

Adesoji Iginla is joined by Aya Fubara Eneli for a wide-ranging conversation about reparations, colonial wealth, African resource extraction, and political repression. 

Together, they connect current headlines to the deeper systems shaping politics and economies across Africa, the Caribbean, the UK, and the United States.

Takeaways

A special episode of African News Review focused on Milton Allimadi’s New book, The Day Biafra Died, and the archival history behind the Biafra War. The conversation brings together Adesoji Iginla, Aya Fubara Eneli, and Milton Allimadi to examine journalism, foreign intervention, humanitarian crisis, and the political decisions that nearly changed Biafra’s fate. 

In this episode, the panel traces how Allimadi’s research moved from New York Times correspondence to a wider story involving Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Lloyd Garrison, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, and U.S. policy toward Biafra. 

Aya adds a deeply personal...

Adesoji Iginla is joined by Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq and Milton Allimadi for the weekly wide-ranging discussion of African geopolitics, liberation politics, and media framing.

The conversation moves from Algeria’s break with the UAE to Congo’s Israel pivot, Sudan’s chemical weapons allegations, Burkina Faso’s industrial push, and the UN vote to correct Africa’s distorted map.

In this episode, the panel connects current headlines to a bigger question: who controls Africa’s security, resources, and image—and what would it look like if Africans did?

Aya, Milton, and Adesoji each bring dis...

This episode covers a fast-moving set of African and diaspora political stories, with a strong focus on elections, media framing, reparations, and African self-determination. Adesoji Iginla is joined by Aya Fubara Eneli and Milton Allimadi, who bring legal, political, and historical context to each story.

The discussion moves from Texas voter registration and U.S. politics to Niger, Uber exiting Nigeria and Uganda, Kenya’s crackdown on foreign traders, and the UN’s latest reparations guidance. 

Across the episode, the guests keep returning to a central theme: African communities need organisation, clarity, and institutions that serve...

In this episode, Adesoji Iginla and Aya Fubara Eneli unpack major stories from across Africa and the diaspora, connecting current events to the deeper historical forces of extraction, colonialism, resistance, and self-determination.

They move from U.S.-backed surveillance in Nigeria to African troop deployments in Gaza, then pivot into food sovereignty in Ghana and a striking example of Western ignorance about Africa’s geography.
 
The episode closes with a call for unity, discipline, and collective action.

Takeaways

*Colonial extraction and modern-day imperialism
*Nigerian politics and oil infrastructure

Africa is being treated like the world’s dumping ground, and this conversation exposes exactly how and why. From Liberia's agreement to take in U.S. deportees to the toxic waste legacy in Côte d’Ivoire.
 
Adesoji Iginla, Aya Fubara Eneli, and Milton Allimadi connect the dots among environmental abuse, political weakness, and the same old colonial logic.

The panel also takes on the explosive fallout around the late Cambridge professor Jason Arde, where questions of plagiarism, media frenzy, and racial double standards collide. 

Was this really about academic standards, or was it anot...

Historian Hakim Adi, author of Pan-Africanism: A History, the definitive modern survey of the Pan-African movement, joins Adesoji Iginla, Milton Allimadi, and Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq., on African News Review for an hour-long special.

This episode features a deep discussion of Pan-Africanism, its history, and its entanglement with international movements such as communism. Prof.Adi explores the challenges, historical manifestations, and future prospects of Pan-African unity and liberation.

We trace the movement from its diasporic origins through Garvey, Du Bois, the Comintern years, Manchester 1945, and the founding of the OAU with a deliberate spotlight on...

This week on African News Review, Adesoji Iginla, alongside Comrade Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq., Analyse recent events, media portrayals, and the importance of critical thinking in understanding international affairs.

🇺🇬 Uganda's military just built a statue honouring an invader, commissioned by the general in line to succeed 81-year-old Yoweri Museveni.

Chad joins three other African countries in walking away from the International Criminal Court, right as the U.S. openly campaigns to dismantle the court entirely.

🇲🇦🇪🇸 In Morocco, King Mohammed VI uses migration as leverage over Spain, exposing Europe's only land border with Africa...

Historian Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Chief Editor of LeftWord Books, joins African News Review for a special one-hour conversation tracing the arc from the Third World's founding "Quests" at Bandung to Washington's modern playbook of coups, sanctions, and lawfare.

We talk about Prashad's two landmark books, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World and Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, with a sustained focus on Africa and Cuba's decades of resistance to US destabilisation.

Vijay Prashad discusses the mechanisms of regime...

Trump Weighs War in Africa, The New Scramble is on, and Impunity shows up again | African News Review

In this episode, we analyse recent geopolitical developments, resource conflicts, and the role of colonial legacies in Africa, featuring insights from Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli.

🔥 TRUMP'S NEXT WAR? The Trump administration is weighing military strikes on the African continent — which would make it the 8th country bombed this term. We break this down.

🇬🇧 BRITISH IMPUNITY IN Former COLONY continues: The UK cancelled army training after local lawmakers demanded the power to prosecute British soldiers. <...

This week on African News Review, watch Adesoji Iginla, alongside Aya Fubara Eneli Esq., take on four stories that the mainstream press is softening.

🇰🇪 DEL MONTE KENYA: State violence is protecting foreign capital in Kenya, and we ask what accountability means when the state protects investment rather than the citizen.

🇨🇲 CAMEROON: France's new visa wall is locking Cameroonian students out of paid-for degrees. We connect it to France's May 2026 non-EU tuition hike and the 2023-24 Sahel visa suspensions.

🇨🇻 CABO VERDE: Cabo Verde's unresolved colonial identity crisis after its historic World Cup run and a curriculum criti...

This week on African News Review, join Adesoji Iginla alongside Comrade Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli Esq. as we reframe four major stories through an Afrocentric lens:

The UAE-backed secret training camps fuelling Sudan's civil war;

French prosecutors investigating a Paraguayan senator's racist attack on Kylian Mbappé;

Ghana's diplomatic standoff with South Africa,

and new allegations that Shell knowingly misled UK courts.

We explore critical issues affecting Africa and the diaspora, including political tensions, social justice, and regional conflicts. Join us for an in-depth discussion on recent events, h...

South Africa is once again convulsed by violence, but this time, the target isn't apartheid's old guard. It's other Africans. Migrants, refugees, and Black foreign nationals are being hunted, beaten, and driven from their homes in a wave of Afrophobic terror.

In this special hour-long edition of African News Review, Adesoji Iginla, Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq. sit down with renowned historian Dr Gerald Horne, author of White Supremacy Confronted and Blows Against the Empire, who discusses the complex history and current political situation in South Africa, exploring themes of imperialism, white supremacy, and global...

This week on African News Review, Adesoji Iginla, alongside Aya Fubara Eneli Esq., examines four major stories in Western media.

🏊 COMMONWEALTH GAMES: 40 years after Annette Cowley Nel was banned from the 1986 Edinburgh Games during the global anti-apartheid boycott, we unpack the BBC's framing.

🦠 KENYA vs. THE US: Health Minister held in contempt of court for defying a ruling against a US-run Ebola quarantine facility at Laikipia.

🇿🇦 OPERATION DUDULA'S "LIBERATION MARCH": Julius Malema calls it Afrophobia. As Operation Dudula and March and March plan nationwide demonstrations for June 30.

🇸🇩 SUDAN: BRITAIN'S COVER-UP: A Yale war crimes in...

In this week's episode, Adesoji Iginla is joined by Comrade Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq., to connect FOUR stories from the mainstream media which together tell one story about how African lives, African history, and African resources are treated by global institutions and world powers.

In this episode, we explore global geopolitics, reparations, African sovereignty, and the impact of colonial history on current affairs. Our panel discusses recent developments in international relations, the importance of African unity, and strategies for economic independence.

Takeaways

*African reparations movement and historical context<...

In this episode of African News Review, host Adesoji Iginla and panellists Aya Fubara Eneli and Milton Allimadi discuss pressing issues affecting African communities, including voter apathy in local elections, the environmental impact of oil companies in Nigeria, and the ongoing struggles for representation and justice. 

They explore the legacy of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the consequences of anti-migrant sentiment in South Africa, and the need for community engagement and political activism to address these challenges. In this conversation, the speakers delve into the complexities of oppression, accountability, and the historical context of South Africa's struggles, drawing parallels with c...

This week on African News Review, Adesoji Iginla, with Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq., reframes the narrative from an Afrocentric perspective. We break down four stories that reveal one uncomfortable pattern: African and Afro-Caribbean lands, bodies, and cultures are still being used as buffers, sacrifice zones, and extraction sites for Western wealth and comfort.

This panel discussion covers a wide range of critical issues, including the impact of colonialism on language and identity, environmental and health concerns from colonial and corporate exploitation, and the ongoing fight for sovereignty and justice across Africa and the Caribbean.<...

This week on African News Review, Adesoji Iginla with Aya Fubara Eneli Esq, cut through the headlines and reframe four major stories from an Afrocentric point of view. 

This episode covers a wide range of global and African issues, including the historical role of the Catholic Church in slavery, the ongoing conflict over Western Sahara, US-Cuba relations, and the importance of understanding history beyond headlines. 

The hosts emphasise the need for critical awareness and responsible decision-making in geopolitics and resource control.

🕊️ STORY 1 — POPE LEO XIV APOLOGISES FOR SLAVERY 
Pope Leo XIV has issued the...

🌍 AFRICAN NEWS REVIEW | Weekly Afrocentric Analysis

Four major stories. One week. Zero filter.

This week, Adesoji Iginla, alongside Comrade Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli Esq., cut through the Western media frame on four stories dominating Africa's news cycle and ask the questions no one else is.

This episode features a comprehensive discussion on global and African political issues, including Nigeria's kidnapping crisis, US foreign policy, African economic struggles, and international conflicts. 

The Panel analyse the impact of neocolonialism, leadership failures, and the need for African unity and self-reliance.
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🦠 STORY 1 — EBOLA IN THE DRC & UGANDA 
Marco Rubio blam...

Africa is not asking anymore. Four stories. One conversation. All Afrocentric.

This week on African News Review, Adesoji Iginla, alongside Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli, break down four stories reshaping the continent's narrative — and ask the questions mainstream media won't. No colonial lens. No saviour complex. Just Africa, on its own terms.

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STORY 1 — FRANCE'S $27BN AFRICA RESET: NAIROBI SUMMIT
Macron arrives in English-speaking Kenya with a $27 billion pledge covering energy, AI, agriculture and the maritime economy. We ask: is this a genuine reset or a rebranding of Françafrique? What does the Sahel's rejection of France really mean — and what does Kenya gain...

Zimbabwe returns stolen farms. Kenya's roses feed sheep. Mali's Tuareg are called terrorists. Uganda silences dissent. One question: who actually pays?

This week on African News Review, join Adesoji Iginla and Aya Fubara Eneli Esq., reframing four of the biggest stories on the continent from an Afrocentric lens that mainstream media refuses to hold. This episode covers critical issues in African geopolitics, land reforms, and the influence of colonial legacy, featuring expert insights on Zimbabwe's land return, Mali's separatist movements, and Kenya's economic reliance on flowers and tea.

🌍 STORY 1 — Zimbabwe's $146 million farm compensation: Is paying Europ...

Four stories. One pattern. Africa's resources, institutions and people are being fought over — and African voices are being left out of the conversation.

This week on African News Review, join Adesoji Iginla, Milton Allimadi, and Aya Fubara Eneli as they go deep on the stories shaping the continent — and reframe them from an Afrocentric point of view.

This episode covers global political dynamics, African leadership, and the influence of international organisations. Key topics include the US and UAE's involvement in Congo, South Africa's xenophobia issues, and Africa's bid for a UN Security Council seat.

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This week on African News Review, Adesoji Iginla is joined by Comrade Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli Esq. as they reframe four major stories on Africa in the Western Media. Where we go beyond the headlines 

🔴 Pope Leo XIV in Angola — Why is the first American pope's historic African tour being covered primarily as a Trump PR crisis? We unpack what the Muxima shrine really represents, the colonial history of Catholicism in Angola, and Leo's unspoken ancestral connection to slavery.

⚖️ Julius Malema sentenced to five years — The EFF leader's gun conviction was brought by A...

Africa is at the centre of the world's most urgent geopolitical battles in 2026, and mainstream media keeps getting the story wrong. This week on African News Review, Adesoji Iginla is joined, as usual, by Comrade Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli Esq., as we go deep into FOUR major stories reshaping the continent, reframing each from an Afrocentric point of view.

🔴 STORY 1 — SUDAN'S WAR ENTERS YEAR FOUR
Sudan's civil war between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed 150,000 people and displaced 13 million. But the real story the Financial Times...

In this episode of African News Review, Adesoji Iginla is joined by Comrade Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli Esq to break down four major stories reshaping Africa's relationship with the world in 2026 and exposing the single thread connecting all of them: who controls African wealth, African land, and African sovereignty.

🔴 STORY 1 — REPARATIONS VS. REFORM UK
Reform UK has threatened to ban visas for nations demanding reparations from Britain for slavery. Commonwealth leaders are pushing back. We ask: Is this a policy — or a punishment? And what does the UK's own slave Compensation history reveal...

In the week's episode of African News Review, Adesoji Iginla is again joined by Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli Esq. as they break down the stories behind the week's headlines related to Africa and expose what the mainstream media is missing, distorting, or deliberately ignoring.

🔴 UGANDA | Bobi Wine forced into exile after Museveni's fraudulent seventh election victory. Over 2,000 arrested. His wife was hospitalised at gunpoint. His bodyguard was tortured. We ask: who does Western democracy promotion actually serve?

🟡 FRANCE | Bally Bagayoko — the first Black mayor of a major French city, son of Malian immigrants — is compare...

One continent. One question: who actually controls Africa's future?

On this week's episode of African News Review, Adesoji Iginla, alongside Milton Allimadi and @Aya Fubara Eneli, helps break down this week's four stories. 

Story 1 — The UN vote: 123 nations just declared the transatlantic slave trade the "gravest crime against humanity" and called for reparations. The US, Argentina and Israel voted against. Britain abstained. We break down what the vote means, what it gets wrong on the numbers, and why the Durban Conference of 2001 matters to understanding this moment.

Story 2 — Sudan: A Le Monde investigation track...

In this episode of African News Review, Adesoji Iginla, alongside Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli Esq., examines four of this week's major geopolitical stories in the Western Media shaping Africa’s global position.

🔴 LUMUMBA TRIAL (RFI) — Belgium edges toward accountability, but where is Washington? The CIA's documented role in Lumumba's assassination remains completely absent from Western coverage.
🔴 NIGERIA IN SVALBARD (The Guardian) — Nigeria becomes the first African country to deposit records in the Arctic World Archive, a Norwegian preservation vault 300 metres beneath a mountain. A genuine act of cultural agency — or a sign that African nations still...

In this episode of African News Review, Adesoji Iginla, alongside Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq, discusses various pressing issues affecting Africa and the African diaspora. 

We unpack the latest political upheavals, migration crises, and technological developments impacting Africa today. 

This discussion offers critical insights into African sovereignty, societal shifts, and the continent's evolving relationship with global powers.

Takeaways 

*The political implications of Netanyahu's rumours and succession
*UK government's Epstein file fallout impacting diplomatic leadership and internal party shifts
*The impact of the Strait of Hormuz closure on Sud...

In this episode of African News Review, Adesoji Iginla, alongside Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq, discusses various pressing issues affecting Africa and the African diaspora. 

The in-depth discussions covered African political developments, international relations, and efforts to secure historical reparations. 

The panel analyse recent elections, US sanctions on Rwanda, and Ghana's push for UN acknowledgement of the slave trade, providing critical insights into Africa's geopolitical landscape.

Takeaways

*African elections and political shifts
*Ghana's initiative for UN acknowledgement of the slave trade
*US sanctions on the Rwandan military an...

In this episode of African News Review, Adesoji Iginla, alongside Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq, discusses various pressing issues affecting Africa and the African diaspora.

It also explores themes such as the significance of Women's History Month, the impact of media control, and the legacy of Kwame Nkrumah.

The speakers addressed the geopolitical implications of war with Iran, local grassroots movements, and the importance of indigenous knowledge.

They also address issues of health aid exploitation, US refugee policy, and the historical context of neocolonialism in Africa. The discussion emphasises the need...

In this episode of African News Review, Adesoji Iginla, alongside Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq, discusses various pressing issues affecting Africa and the African diaspora, including the political landscape in Texas, controversial education policies, systemic decay in politics, the implications of Prince Andrew's arrest, and Marco Rubio's recent speech. 

They also highlight women's contributions to history and address the exploitation and safety of women in Africa. 

The conversation emphasises the need for political reform and accountability, as well as the importance of recognising and celebrating women's roles in society.

Takeaways

They examine the African perspective on Cuba's situation, international responses, and ongoing human rights issues in Gaza. 

The conversation also touches on legal developments in the UK regarding Epstein's case, child exploitation networks, and the broader context of exploitation in Africa. 

The need for African unity and leadership is emphasised, alongside discussions on the scramble for resources and the impact of immigration and imagined colonisation in the UK. 

The episode concludes with reflections on the interconnectedness of these issues and the importance of solidarity and action.

Takeaways

*Cuba is fac...

In this episode of African News Review, Adesoji Iginla, alongside Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli Esq  discuss various pressing issues affecting the African diaspora, including the impact of ICE policies in Texas, Trump's controversial Black History Month proclamation, and the implications of Jacob Zuma's mention in the Epstein files.

They also reflect on the recent death of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and South Africa's expulsion of an Israeli diplomat, highlighting the ongoing struggles against racism and oppression.

Takeaways

*The importance of organising against oppressive policies like ICE in Texas.
*Protests a...