Sungu Oyoo, Author at This is Africa

GenZ: These demonstrations go beyond the Finance Bill

Sungu Oyoo — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 12:24:43 +0000

An anti-people 2024 Finance Act currently before the Kenyan Parliament has united Kenyans in opposing the Ruto regime in a manner we haven’t witnessed in a long time. Kenyans, under the capable leadership of GenZ, came out in the tens of thousands to oppose this draconian Finance Act on the 18th, 19th and 20th of June 2024 not only in Nairobi but also across the country.

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Our struggle for reparations: Recognitions, apologies and other short stories

Sungu Oyoo — Tue, 30 May 2023 13:59:50 +0000

In this phase of the struggle for reparations, our generation is unapologetically pointing out historical facts and demanding reparative justice. At a future date, African people will again demand for reparations relating to the neo-colonial era.

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A critique of everything: Crises and crossroads in Kenya

Sungu Oyoo — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 16:54:40 +0000

Kenya is at a historic juncture – historical but not decisive. Food prices are at an all-time high and unemployment is the middle name of more than half of Kenya’s youth. Millions of Kenyans remain discontented with their prevailing material conditions and state of affairs in the country.

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Poverty doesn’t fall from the sky – it is manufactured: A Conversation with Muhammad Lamin and Coumba Toure

Sungu Oyoo — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 05:18:38 +0000

Sungu Oyoo sat down with Muhamad Lamin Saidykhan and Coumba Toure, co-ordinators of the Africans Rising movement for Justice, Peace and Dignity, in June 2018 to interview them about the just concluded 55th African Liberation Day (25th May 2018), a date which had also marked the one year anniversary of the launch of this movement.

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Long Read | African Liberation Day: The people are our mountains

Sungu Oyoo — Wed, 25 May 2022 10:33:48 +0000

In this article, Sungu Oyoo relates happenings in his village of Kajulu (Kenya) to the Pan-African crisis by exploring how the Neo-colonial state reproduces itself, then creates myths to cover its tracks. For just as the colonial enterprise was anchored in myths of ‘civilizing missions’ - the neo-colonial state is today even more adept at creating and propagating myths and designs that cloud our eyes, obscure our visions and act as roadblocks to the African Revolution.

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