Less than two years after gaining independence, Kenya began killing its own freedom fighters. The first political assassination happened in 1965. They killed a man who knew what freedom was, and who knew how to get it. This man was Pio Gama Pinto.
“Until Everyone Is Free” is a Sheng podcast about Pinto: socialist, political detainee, and martyr. Host Stoneface Bombaa, producer April Zhu, and reporter Felix Omondi tell the story of a forgotten freedom fighter to answer one important question: How did the country of Kenya become free... without the people of Kenya getting free?
It is important for many who were recently radicalized by the #RejectFinanceBill protests to understand that we are not the first to take on the powers that have shaped Kenya into a country subservient to foreign interests. Under Moi, neoliberalism and authoritarianism stripped Kenyans of...
Published 11/16/24
We need to think beyond just graft and theft. For all of the wastage and graft of MPs, for example, Parliament still only makes up less than 1% of Kenya's national budget. We need to think beyond individual vice—concepts like greed and corruption and dishonesty—and think towards larger...
Published 09/19/24