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 communit...

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 a...

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...

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 Afri...

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...

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 Afric...

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 The UN General Assembly, political propaganda, and the challenge o...

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...

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 pan...

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 N...

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 ig...

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 f...

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 chal...

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...

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 Da...

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 — wh...

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 o...

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 a...

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...

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-...

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 impa...

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 se...

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...

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 histor...

🌍 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, i...