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African News Review

African News Review

Adesoji Iginla with Milton Allimadi & Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq. 131 Episodes Oct 11, 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 11 Who Controls Kenya's “Tea Lands”? | African News Review
EP 11 Who Controls Kenya's “Tea Lands”? | African News Review Oct 11, 2026 4903 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
EP 10 Why Is Dangote Refinery So Important to Africa's Future? And Traoré's Gold  | African News Review
EP 10 Why Is Dangote Refinery So Important to Africa's Future? And Traoré's Gold | African News Review Oct 4, 2026 4433 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
EP 9 UK's Slavery Benefactors List EXPOSED - Bank of England, Chagos, And More | African News Review
EP 9 UK's Slavery Benefactors List EXPOSED - Bank of England, Chagos, And More | African News Review Sep 27, 2026 4513 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.TakeawaysThe UN General Assembly, political propaganda, and the challenge of a
EP 8 THE DAY BIAFRA DIED with Author Milton Allimadi | African News Review Special
EP 8 THE DAY BIAFRA DIED with Author Milton Allimadi | African News Review Special Sep 20, 2026 4702 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 h
EP 7 UN Votes to Fix Africa's Map | Sudan's Chemical Weapons Bombshell  | African News Review
EP 7 UN Votes to Fix Africa's Map | Sudan's Chemical Weapons Bombshell | African News Review Sep 13, 2026 3863 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
EP 6 UN Slavery Reparations, Kenya’s Ruto Crackdown and Africa’s Sovereignty | African News Review
EP 6 UN Slavery Reparations, Kenya’s Ruto Crackdown and Africa’s Sovereignty | African News Review Sep 6, 2026 4281 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 Ni
EP 5 Trump’s Team Can't Find Africa On A Map, African Troops to Gaza and More… | African News Review
EP 5 Trump’s Team Can't Find Africa On A Map, African Troops to Gaza and More… | African News Review Aug 30, 2026 4323 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
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

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