Steve Mokaya

3 weeks ago | africanavoice.com | Steve Mokaya

LISTEN TO THIS THE AFRICANA VOICE ARTICLE NOW It was an ordinary Thursday afternoon in South B in Nairobi when Rose Njeri’s world tilted on its axis. She had just wrapped up some errands and was heading home, unaware that within hours, she’d be sitting in a police cell, cold, hungry, and unsure of what tomorrow would bring. “I thought I was being pranked,” she says now, weeks after her release, her voice steady but tinged with disbelief.

3 weeks ago | africanavoice.com | Steve Mokaya

LISTEN TO THIS THE AFRICANA VOICE ARTICLE NOW For years, Ken Ofori-Atta was the polished face of Ghana’s economic strategy, a Harvard-educated investment banker who became finance minister in 2017, tasked with steering the country through turbulent fiscal waters. Now, he’s the subject of an Interpol Red Notice, accused of using the same high office for personal enrichment. Ofori-Atta’s transformation from government technocrat to international fugitive is as swift as it is dramatic.

3 weeks ago | africanavoice.com | Steve Mokaya

LISTEN TO THIS THE AFRICANA VOICE ARTICLE NOW On Thursday, June 5, 2025, Edgar Chagwa Lungu, the former president of Zambia and a man whose political life had swung between triumph and turmoil, died at the age of 68. His final days were spent under specialist care at a medical centre in Pretoria, South Africa, far from the copper-rich heartlands of his birthplace, Ndola, where his long journey began.

1 month ago | africanavoice.com | Steve Mokaya

LISTEN TO THIS THE AFRICANA VOICE ARTICLE NOW For decades, it was the stuff of rumor and fragmented memory, a rarely seen antelope whispered about by biologists and local communities in the wetlands of southern Democratic Republic of Congo. Now, in an extraordinary scientific breakthrough, the Upemba Lechwe has finally stepped out of obscurity and into photographic history.

1 month ago | africanavoice.com | Steve Mokaya

LISTEN TO THIS THE AFRICANA VOICE ARTICLE NOW At a moment thick with the scent of incense and diplomacy, Kenya’s President William Ruto stood before an audience at the national prayer breakfast on Wednesday, May 28th, and chose words that were both rare and revealing. “To our neighbours from Tanzania,” he said slowly, “if we have wronged you in any way, forgive us.”There was no prompt from his official speech. No state statement had prepared the public.