African News Review

African News Review

Adesoji Iginla with Milton Allimadi & Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq.
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Episoade 131
Ultimul 20.09.2026

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.

Episoade

  • EP 8 THE DAY BIAFRA DIED with Author Milton Allimadi | African News Review Special 20.09.2026 1h 18min
    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 how Allimadi’s research moved from New York Times correspondence to a wider story involving...
  • EP 7 UN Votes to Fix Africa's Map | Sudan's Chemical Weapons Bombshell | African News Review 13.09.2026 1h 4min
    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 panel connects current headlines to a bigger question: who controls Africa’s security, resources...
  • EP 6 UN Slavery Reparations, Kenya’s Ruto Crackdown and Africa’s Sovereignty | African News Review 06.09.2026 1h 11min
    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 Nigeria and Uganda, Kenya’s crackdown on foreign traders, and the UN’s latest reparations guidanc...
  • EP 5 Trump’s Team Can't Find Africa On A Map, African Troops to Gaza and More… | African News Review 30.08.2026 1h 12min
    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 ignorance about Africa’s geography. The episode closes with a call for unity, discipline, ...
  • EP 4 Prof.Jason Arday and The U.K. Media | UAE in Africa | Waste Colonialism and US Deportations | ANR 23.08.2026 59min
    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 fallout around the late Cambridge professor Jason Arde, where questions of plagiarism, media fren...
  • EP 3 Prof. Hakim Adi on Pan-Africanism in 2026 and Beyond | African News Review Special 16.08.2026 1h 8min
    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 challenges, historical manifestations, and future prospects of Pan-African unity and liberation. We...
  • EP2 Museveni lauds Invader | Africa Quits the ICC | Morocco Outplays Spain | African News Review 10.08.2026 49min
    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 African countries in walking away from the International Criminal Court, right as the U.S. openly ...
  • EP 1 Vijay Prashad - U.S. Neocolonialism in Africa | African News Review Special 02.08.2026 1h 3min
    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 Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World and Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinatio...
  • EP 12 Trump New War in Mali, France's New Scramble For Minerals & Britain's Impunity | African News Review 26.07.2026 1h 10min
    Trump Weighs War in Africa, The New Scramble is on, and Impunity shows up again | African News Review In 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 would make it the 8th country bombed this term. We break this down. 🇬🇧 BRITISH IMPUNITY IN Form...
  • EP 11 William Ruto's Silence; France's Visa Wall and the Pipeline Uganda Can't Stop | African News Review 20.07.2026 1h 14min
    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 paid-for degrees. We connect it to France's May 2026 non-EU tuition hike and the 2023-24 Sahel vis...
  • EP 10 Mbappé Silences A Racist and Ghana's Stance on South Africa's Afrophobia | African News Review 13.07.2026 1h 8min
    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 allegations that Shell knowingly misled UK courts. We explore critical issues affecting Africa and the d...
  • EP 9 Dr Gerald Horne on Afrophobia and The South Africa Conspiracy | An African News Review Special 05.07.2026 54min
    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 with renowned historian Dr Gerald Horne, author of White Supremacy Confronted and Blows Against the Empire, w...
  • EP 8 Apartheid Erased | Guinea's Gold | Ebola Climbdown | Malema vs Operation Dudula | UK-UAE Sudan Cover-Up | African News Review 28.06.2026 1h 20min
    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 Ebola quarantine facility at Laikipia. 🇿🇦 OPERATION DUDULA'S "LIBERATION MARCH": Julius Malema ...
  • EP 7 Mia Mottley Reparations Drive, Resource Theft And Dodgy Arms Deals | African News Review 22.06.2026 1h 18min
    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 impact of colonial history on current affairs. Our panel discusses recent developments in international r...
  • EP 6 Banned Referee, Stolen History, Xenophobic Mobs and Shell's 66-Year Cover-Up | African News Review 14.06.2026 1h 15min
    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 sentiment in South Africa, and the need for community engagement and political activism to ad...
  • EP 5 Ebola, Poison, Mines & Patois | African News Review 08.06.2026 1h 13min
    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 covers a wide range of critical issues, including the impact of colonialism on language and ide...
  • EP 4 Pope Apologises for Slavery | Cuba War Threat | Africa's Last Colony | Senegal's Crisis Explained | African News Review 🌍 31.05.2026 1h 22min
    This week on African News Review, Adesoji Iginla with Aya Fubara Eneli Esq, cut through the headlines and reframe four major stories from an Afrocentric point of view. This episode covers a wide range of global and African issues, including the historical role of the Catholic Church in slavery, the ongoing conflict over Western Sahara, US-Cuba relations, and the importance of understanding history beyond headlines. The hosts emphasise the need for critical awareness and responsi...
  • EP 3 Africa's Crisis Season - Ebola | Fuel Protests | Fake Refugees | Sudan's Proxy War Exposed | African News Review 24.05.2026 1h 12min
    🌍 AFRICAN NEWS REVIEW | Weekly Afrocentric Analysis Four major stories. One week. Zero filter. This week, Adesoji Iginla, alongside Comrade Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli Esq., cut through the Western media frame on four stories dominating Africa's news cycle and ask the questions no one else is. This episode features a comprehensive discussion on global and African political issues, including Nigeria's kidnapping crisis, US foreign policy, African economic struggles, and internation...
  • EP 2 Africa For The Taking? | African News Review 17.05.2026 52min
    Africa is not asking anymore. Four stories. One conversation. All Afrocentric. This week on African News Review, Adesoji Iginla, alongside Milton Allimadi and Aya Fubara Eneli, break down four stories reshaping the continent's narrative — and ask the questions mainstream media won't. No colonial lens. No saviour complex. Just Africa, on its own terms. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STORY 1 — FRANCE'S $27BN AFRICA RESET: NAIROBI SUMMIT Macron arrives in English-speaking Kenya with ...
  • EP 1 Zimbabwe's Stolen Farms | Uganda's Silenced NGOs | Kenya Past Haunts | African News Review 10.05.2026 55min
    Zimbabwe returns stolen farms. Kenya's roses feed sheep. Mali's Tuareg are called terrorists. Uganda silences dissent. One question: who actually pays? This week on African News Review, join Adesoji Iginla and Aya Fubara Eneli Esq., reframing four of the biggest stories on the continent from an Afrocentric lens that mainstream media refuses to hold. This episode covers critical issues in African geopolitics, land reforms, and the influence of colonial legacy, featuring expert insights on Zim...

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