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African News Review

African News Review

Adesoji Iginla with Milton Allimadi & Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq. 131 Episodes Aug 23, 2026

African News Review is a podcast that reexamines African history and contemporary affairs from an African perspective, countering the traditional narratives dominated by colonial hunters. Episodes cover the European partition of Africa, influential African leaders, Pan-Africanism, decolonization, Cold War proxy battles, and today's challenges and opportunities. It also discusses books about Africa and Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. The show features engaging discussions and thought-provoking insights, hosted by Adesoji Iginla with co-hosts Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli.

Episodes

EP 4 Prof.Jason Arday and The U.K. Media | UAE in Africa | Waste Colonialism and US Deportations | ANR
EP 4 Prof.Jason Arday and The U.K. Media | UAE in Africa | Waste Colonialism and US Deportations | ANR Aug 23, 2026 3544 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 fall
EP 3 Prof. Hakim Adi on Pan-Africanism in 2026 and Beyond | African News Review Special
EP 3 Prof. Hakim Adi on Pan-Africanism in 2026 and Beyond | African News Review Special Aug 16, 2026 4106 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 chall
EP2 Museveni lauds Invader | Africa Quits the ICC | Morocco Outplays Spain | African News Review
EP2 Museveni lauds Invader | Africa Quits the ICC | Morocco Outplays Spain | African News Review Aug 10, 2026 2971 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
EP 1 Vijay Prashad - U.S. Neocolonialism in Africa | African News Review Special
EP 1 Vijay Prashad - U.S. Neocolonialism in Africa | African News Review Special Aug 2, 2026 3820 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 Dar
EP 12 Trump New War in Mali, France's New Scramble For Minerals & Britain's Impunity | African News Review
EP 12 Trump New War in Mali, France's New Scramble For Minerals & Britain's Impunity | African News Review Jul 26, 2026 4212 Trump Weighs War in Africa, The New Scramble is on, and Impunity shows up again | African News ReviewIn 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
EP 11 William Ruto's Silence; France's Visa Wall and the Pipeline Uganda Can't Stop | African News Review
EP 11 William Ruto's Silence; France's Visa Wall and the Pipeline Uganda Can't Stop | African News Review Jul 20, 2026 4441 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
EP 10 Mbappé Silences A Racist and Ghana's Stance on South Africa's Afrophobia | African News Review
EP 10 Mbappé Silences A Racist and Ghana's Stance on South Africa's Afrophobia | African News Review Jul 13, 2026 4099 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
EP 9 Dr Gerald Horne on Afrophobia and The South Africa Conspiracy | An African News Review Special
EP 9 Dr Gerald Horne on Afrophobia and The South Africa Conspiracy | An African News Review Special Jul 5, 2026 3259 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
EP 8 Apartheid Erased | Guinea's Gold | Ebola Climbdown | Malema vs Operation Dudula | UK-UAE Sudan Cover-Up | African News Review
EP 8 Apartheid Erased | Guinea's Gold | Ebola Climbdown | Malema vs Operation Dudula | UK-UAE Sudan Cover-Up | African News Review Jun 28, 2026 4828 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
EP 7 Mia Mottley Reparations Drive, Resource Theft And Dodgy Arms Deals | African News Review
EP 7 Mia Mottley Reparations Drive, Resource Theft And Dodgy Arms Deals | African News Review Jun 22, 2026 4683 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 impac
EP 6 Banned Referee, Stolen History, Xenophobic Mobs and Shell's 66-Year Cover-Up | African News Review
EP 6 Banned Referee, Stolen History, Xenophobic Mobs and Shell's 66-Year Cover-Up | African News Review Jun 14, 2026 4523 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 sen
EP 5 Ebola, Poison, Mines & Patois | African News Review
EP 5 Ebola, Poison, Mines & Patois | African News Review Jun 8, 2026 4426 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

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