Mzalendo Mutemi wa Kiama

A fervent revolutionary and community organiser, Mutemi wa Kiama is also a staunch Pan Africanist, social entrepreneur, movement builder and coach with the African Coaching Network. He excels in strategic planning and communications and he has served as the #AfricansRising Movement Chair of the Engagement and Communication committee as well as Co-Chair of the Coordinating Collective(Board) amongst other roles.

Politics and Society3 months ago
The Shock Doctrine Live in the Gulf
In March 2026, as The Jeffery Epstein files threatened to expose elite predators, the US-Israel unleashed catastrophic war on Iran—assassinating Khamenei, pounding Tehran, invading Lebanon, choking...
Politics and Society3 months ago
Singapore: To Be or Not To Be, Kenya? The Verdict — Three Cases, One Stool, and a Choice We Cannot Avoid
In Part One, we traced how Kenya’s own Tom Mboya had articulated a vision almost identical to Singapore’s — and how that vision was assassinated on...
Politics and Society3 months ago
Singapore: To Be or Not To Be, Kenya? The Carrot, the Stick, and the Apex Predator | Part 2
Singapore built its anti-corruption success by engineering honesty as the rational choice—through ironclad anti-corruption laws, fearsome enforcement by an independent CPIB, and terrifying consequences that crush...
Politics and Society3 months ago
The Accident of Meritocracy: Why the Western Operating System Has Crashed—and the African Software Needed to Reboot Humanity
The hyper-individualist, extractive capitalist system is crashing before our eyes. As the old world fractures, true renewal lies not in elite-driven "Great Resets," but in rebooting...
Politics and Society3 months ago
Singapore: To Be or Not To Be, Kenya? The Blueprint We Already Had — And How We Buried It | Part 1
Kenyans crave Singapore’s economic success and remain collectively obsessed with becoming the “Singapore of Africa,” yet they fear its ruthless anti-corruption system. The first instalment of...

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Mzalendo Mutemi wa Kiama

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The Shock Doctrine Live in the Gulf

Singapore: To Be or Not To Be, Kenya? The Verdict — Three Cases, One Stool, and a Choice We Cannot Avoid

Singapore: To Be or Not To Be, Kenya? The Carrot, the Stick, and the Apex Predator | Part 2

The Accident of Meritocracy: Why the Western Operating System Has Crashed—and the African Software Needed to Reboot Humanity

Singapore: To Be or Not To Be, Kenya? The Blueprint We Already Had — And How We Buried It | Part 1

“Zvigananda” and Frantz Fanon: Meaning and context in Zimbabwe’s newfound political elitism

Femi Longe and the architecture of African liberation

Africa Bitcoin Day 2026: Eight cities, ten days, one continental refusal

‘One man one vote’’s Revolutionary praxis in Zimbabwe (Politics belongs to the masses)

Finding the African way | The time for putting ourselves first

The Empire’s war, our Mathree fares: Why the cost of living just exploded

The Pan-Africanism of it all

An open letter to Emmanuel Macron: You are not a Panafricanist and can never be!

Dada means sister

Uganda’s Bobi Wine on the books (and songs) that shape his politics

The daughter of Togo and the money they cannot seize

The nine billion dollar tax on love

The dam, the miners, and the question of who electricity is for

Why do so many African women bleach their skin? Study looks beyond what they tell researcher

The colonial currency has an exit door

The Bitcoin that speaks USSD

Long Read: Beyond the binary — Reimagining democracy through ancient African wisdom; The lens of Utu/Ubuntu

Nelson Mandela was a towering global symbol – but how effective was he as a president?

Game Theory, The math of survival and the soul of community: Why the Gulf’s zero-sum game needs Utu

Interview – From novelist to publisher: Andrew Chatora on building Friesian Publishing

Africans Rising concludes reconstitution of governance structure – New Coordinating Collective takes office

Zimbabwean writer Andrew Chatora awarded for land-themed novel in New York

In the face of autocracy the Togolese Civil League movement pushes for justice, accountability and democracy

Opinion | PanAfricanists must seek a radical cure for the open wound that is the state in Africa

David Chasumba’s Behind the Facade & Other Short Stories: A review

Opinion | The Muhoozi Project is a hoax

Vazhure’s Weeping Tomato: An Intrepid Tale of Interconnected Binary Opposites – A Review by Andrew Chatora

Jack Dorsey returns for the third edition of the Africa Bitcoin Conference 2024

Europe has plans for Africa’s resources, and not for Africa’s benefit

OPINION | Kenya protests: Either we urgently push for UN-led global tax reforms, or we face more conflict

Climate finance for the Global North and climate reparations for the Global South

Nelson Mandela’s personal items under the hammer in New York? Why it outraged some, and what’s at stake

The Africa Club launched to strengthen the continent’s financial muscle

Andrew Chatora on the faultlines of nation-building

Opinion — Pan-Africanist and global development expert Brian Kagoro reiterates longstanding opposition to ZIDERA

UNEA-6: Fossil fuels drive both the Plastics and Climate Crises and need an International Framework to phase them out

Remembering an African literary icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o —10 quotes: Part 1

Undersea cables are the unseen backbone of the global internet

Colonial statues in Africa have been removed, returned and torn down again – why it’s such a complex history

Africans Rising Borderless Africa Convening: The Lusaka Communiqué

Ghetto Kids: what’s behind the moves of the Ugandan dance troupe that stormed the world

Joe Biden is meeting African leaders – why free trade is a major talking point

Ghana ranked Africa’s best and Eritrea worst in World Press Freedom Index

On abortions: Empathy over judgement