Msingi Afrika Magazine

16/08/2024

Here's how you can help:
When you purchase our new book, Fathers of PanAfricanism, we will donate 10% of the proceeds to the campaign we have launched to help alleviate the suffering caused by the Goma refugee crisis. Additionally, you can help the Goma Refugee Crisis campaign by making a direct contribution to our GoFundMe using the link we have shared and urging your friends and family to follow suit. Your donation will provide much-needed food, clean water, clothing, blankets, school supplies, and toiletries to the community's men, women, and children.
To purchase the e-book: https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/fathers-of-pan-africanism
To contribute to our GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/goma-refugee-crisis
Let's give meaning to Pan-Africanism, let's make Ubuntu work.

16/08/2024

We cannot speak of Ubuntu or Pan-Africanism when our people are dying needlessly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Due to internal conflict, men, women, and children have been left without access to food, shelter, water, and healthcare for extended periods.
For us as a people, ubuntu must mean more than just platitudes. It must refer to our collective action to help free our people from pain and anguish.

Here's how you can help:
When you purchase our new book, Fathers of PanAfricanism, we will donate 10% of the proceeds to the campaign we have launched to help alleviate the suffering caused by the Goma refugee crisis. Additionally, you can help the Goma Refugee Crisis campaign by making a direct contribution to our GoFundMe using the link we have shared and urging your friends and family to follow suit. Your donation will provide much-needed food, clean water, clothing, blankets, school supplies, and toiletries to the community's men, women, and children.
To purchase the e-book: https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/fathers-of-pan-africanism
To contribute to our GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/goma-refugee-crisis
Let's give meaning to Pan-Africanism, let's make Ubuntu work.

15/08/2024

We cannot speak of Ubuntu or Pan-Africanism when our people are dying needlessly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Due to internal conflict, men, women, and children have been left without access to food, shelter, water, and healthcare for extended periods.
For us as a people, ubuntu must mean more than just platitudes. It must refer to our collective action to help free our people from pain and anguish.

Here's how you can help:

When you purchase our new book, Fathers of PanAfricanism, we will donate 10% of the proceeds to the campaign we have launched to help alleviate the suffering caused by the Goma refugee crisis. Additionally, you can help the Goma Refugee Crisis campaign by making a direct contribution to our GoFundMe using the link we have shared and urging your friends and family to follow suit. Your donation will provide much-needed food, clean water, clothing, blankets, school supplies, and toiletries to the community's men, women, and children.

To purchase the e-book: https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/fathers-of-pan-africanism
To contribute to our GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/goma-refugee-crisis
Let's give meaning to Pan-Africanism, let's make Ubuntu work.

09/08/2024

Latest Book Release by PD Lawton and Samuel Philips.
This book is about the lives of some of the founding Fathers of Pan-Africanism, what they stood for and died for to enable independent African states. This book features the virtues of Honesty, Honor, Love, patriotism, Compassion, Self-Dignity, Vision, Purpose, Heroism, Selflessness, Truth, etc. while shedding light on the various acts of internal and external sabotage that have enabled and continue to enable a "weak" Africa.
Get the E-book: https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/fathers-of-pan-africanism
To get the Paperback, please email: [email protected]

05/08/2024

There are people in the world who are unaware of any freedom struggle in Africa, unaware that there is one or that there ever was a start of it. This book aims to bring to life the most brilliant minds that shaped the beginning of Pan-Africanism in Africa, what made them unique, and capable of heading revolutions of consciousness to lead entire nations. This book targets the youth of Africa, using the various lessons we could glean from the lives of the founding fathers of Pan-Africanism to create lessons that our African youths can learn and apply for continental building, in this age of speed and much vanity.

There is a tendency to talk and keep talking about African unity, but African unity without an African purpose or vision is meaningless. Until we have a clear vision and purpose that we can call African and then a conscious system that is engineered to build that purpose in all levels of African life, Pan-Africanism and our unity will continue to be just theories, a mirage that will never come to pass. Where there is no vision or purpose, there can never be unity. Unity only makes sense where there is something to be united for.
But it warms the heart to know that there is a generation of young Africans who love this continent and have the mental, physical, and spiritual energy not only to bring her back from the brink but to cause her to soar once again. And soar they must, if they first disengage from the usual talking about Pan-Africanism, take time to truly look into the various aspects of the system that runs Africa, find the weak links that keep undermining our collective growth and create the appropriate system that will give accurate solutions.

Among those that this book features are the founders of the Casablanca Group. This group of visionary leaders, with Nkrumah and Nasser at the forefront, pushed for rapid industrialization in their new nations. They battled to complete mega energy infrastructure, in the case of Egypt and Ghana, these were hydroelectric power plants with which to kick-start industrialized economies. With a national energy grid, it would be possible to modernize and greatly increase agricultural output with mechanized irrigation, this Egypt did and Nkrumah was on the verge of doing, before his removal from office. Under a national electrification program, education levels dramatically increase which leads to greater prosperity. It was Nkrumah, in particular, who strove for mineral beneficiation. His economic ambition to process Ghanaian bauxite into finished aluminum products remains unrealized. Mineral beneficiation on a significant scale has yet to happen in Africa, which is a crime that must no longer be tolerated if the continent is to cease being a raw materials market for the Global North. It’s beautiful to see the young Ibrahim Traoré, the military leader of Burkina Faso, taking control of his country’s mineral resources back from France, and creating a new path for his people, just like Thomas Sankara did before him.

The leadership of the continent in the 1960s was unanimously behind the idea of unity, even though, for a very few, that was more in theory than in practice. What the leadership did not agree on was rapid industrialization. The Casablanca Group insisted that Africans were more than capable of running industrialized economies. The Monrovia Group, who opposed them, believed that change should happen gradually and that there needed to be an interregnum period of partnership with the former colonial powers. Several decades later, we can see the consequence of the inability of the Pan-African fathers to agree on the rapid industrialization of Africa. Africans are still paying the price for this grave mistake. Can this mistake be corrected now that more Africans, especially the youth are awakened to the issues facing Africa?

This book features the virtues of Honesty, Honor, Love, Compassion, Self-Dignity, Self-Awareness, Hope, Vision, Purpose, Heroism, Selflessness, Truth, etc. that every African youth and even older Africans should embrace if we want a better Africa. It offers simple but thought-provoking lessons from the lives of the fathers of Pan-Africanism that every young African can interact with and use as a springboard for making effective decisions that will change the trajectory of Africa’s narrative.

Authors

PD Lawton is a writer and researcher of African affairs, born in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa who believes in the Zulu proverb about human inter-dependence: “ Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu”, “I am because you are”. She is the creator of the pan African website africanagenda.net
She is based in the UK.

Samuel Irewolede Phillips is a Messenger of Hope who expresses himself as a writer, author of several books, graphic designer, photographer, songwriter and singer. He is the co-publisher of Msingi Afrika Magazine based in Kenya.

Foreword by Prof PLO Lumumba

You can pre-order the E-book via the link below:
https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/fathers-of-pan-africanism

04/08/2024

The reason why you don't have GMOs in the seed vault is the same reason why those who created glyphosate don't eat the crops planted using glyphosate. Its the same reason why those who created school don't send their children to school. We cannot allow our African indigenous seeds be destroyed by those who think they own the world.
Organic Consumers Alliance - OCA Zambia Alliance for Agroecology and Biodiversity Food Sovereignty Ghana William Samoei Ruto Organic Farmers market GRAIN Rutendo Benson Matinyarare Msingi Afrika Magazine Organic farmers kenya Jack Githae

01/08/2024

The story of Senegal is captured in a powerful display of brotherhood and common-unity made by Ousmane Sonko towards his compadre Bassirou Diomaye Faye and vice versa. Since when does an individual in Afrika who has been prevented from running for political office back someone to do it in his stead instead of doing some corrupt juju somewhere in the legal system to make it happen... and, when that person wins, since when do they turn around and raise their friend to as equal status as is legally possible and begin to run things together? The commonality of vision and purpose that the two share is unprecedented and a blessing to the continent of Afrika even as it is a powerful declaration that IT IS POSSIBLE IN AFRIKA!!!
This is the power of Love, brotherhood and community that will get Afrika to its place of destiny.
And so we present to you this 30th issue: Senegal - Embracing a Better Africa.
https://mailchi.mp/b4c7fd561316/msingi-afrika-magazine-august-2024-we-need-true-common-unity-or-community-in-africa

30/07/2024

We cannot close our hearts to this war on indigenous seeds that is going on in Africa and across the world. Save Africa's Indigenous seeds today.
Zambia Alliance for Agroecology and Biodiversity Food Sovereignty Ghana Organic Consumers Alliance - OCA GRAIN Jack Githae Organic farmers kenya Organic Farmers market William Samoei Ruto Rutendo Benson Matinyarare

30/07/2024

Heal the land, heal the crops and heal the people.

30/07/2024

We must support our farmers.

21/07/2024

It's easy to say that the various crisis going on in Africa, especially in the DRC, is just a case of mindless Africans fighting themselves. Or that Africans cannot govern themselves. That would be nothing but a naïve way of looking at it. DRC seats on a vast mineral wealth that the world wants and would do anything to keep DRC in crisis so they can access it. But it's up to Africans to know what's happening and do something about it.

It's easy to say that the various crisis going on in Africa, especially in the DRC, is just a case of mindless Africans fighting themselves. Or that Africans...

12/07/2024

Many wars are raging against Africa right now and we must fight to win. However, there is a fight that we cannot afford to lose, that is, the war against the Agro-colonization of Africa or the colonization of Africa's seeds and food systems.

Agro-colonization is the forceful or subtle takeover of Africa's agriculture which includes indigenous seeds, indigenous farmlands, indigenous food systems, and the introduction of GMOs by pseudo-farm corporations for globalist interests.
The biggest weapon for future wars will not just be nuclear weapons or AI but the control of food and water. We must protect indigenous crops and seeds for the days ahead. Watch the video via the link below.

Many wars are raging against Africa right now which we must fight to win. However, there is a fight that we cannot afford to lose, that is, the war against t...

02/07/2024

The Influence of Built Environments on Cognitive Health and Decline
As life expectancy increases due to improvements in healthcare, nutrition, and sanitation, more people are living into older age. Additionally, rapid urbanization and changes in lifestyle are leading to reduced physical activity and increased stress, which are risk factors for cognitive decline making it a pressing public health and social concern.

While medical advancements play a critical role in addressing this challenge, the built environment’s impact on cognitive health is an emerging area of interest. Understanding how our surroundings influence brain function and mental well-being could provide innovative strategies for cognitive decline and dementia prevention.

Article Ronald Mbiu, Nairobi Kenya.

https://www.msingiafrikamagazine.com/2024/07/the-influence-of-built-environments-on-cognitive-health-and-decline/

02/07/2024

As life expectancy increases due to improvements in healthcare, nutrition, and sanitation, more people are living into older age. Additionally, rapid urbanization and changes in lifestyle are leading to reduced physical activity and increased stress, which are risk factors for cognitive decline making it a pressing public health and social concern.

While medical advancements play a critical role in addressing this challenge, the built environment’s impact on cognitive health is an emerging area of interest. Understanding how our surroundings influence brain function and mental well-being could provide innovative strategies for cognitive decline and dementia prevention.

As life expectancy increases due to improvements in healthcare, nutrition, and sanitation, more people are living into older age. Additionally, rapid urbanization and changes in lifestyle are leading to reduced physical activity and increased stress, which are risk factors for cognitive decline maki...

01/07/2024

In this issue, we featured Lesotho the Mountain Kingdom of Southern Africa.
We hope you enjoy our 29th issue: Lesotho- let Love lead.

Read the new issue via the link below:
https://mailchi.mp/b85df464724d/msingi-afrika-magazine-july-2024-5-years-of-telling-afrikas-stories

01/07/2024

It is amazing to us that we officially kicked this journey off 5 years ago. 5 years of hills, mountains, and valleys... of victories, battles, and overcoming. Of calibrating and recalibrating. Of learning, unlearning, and relearning. Of new friendships and renewed commitments.
I can tell you that, without a doubt, if we did not love our Afrika and our people - and most of all if we did not love Love - we would have given up a long time ago. To you, our readers across the world and more than one hundred contributors who have shared their works with us over the years, to those who have held us up in one way or another - THANK YOU! Thank you for being with us on this journey. Whatever the future holds, we can always say that we have shared this milestone today. You have been such an important part of helping us tell the true Afrikan story, and of the healing, restoring, and rebirthing of our beloved Afrika. We celebrate you.
In this issue, we featured Lesotho the Mountain Kingdom of Southern Africa.
We hope you enjoy our 29th issue: Lesotho- let Love lead.

Read the new issue via the link below:
https://mailchi.mp/b85df464724d/msingi-afrika-magazine-july-2024-5-years-of-telling-afrikas-stories

29/06/2024

Africa is blessed with sons and daughters who watch after her affairs and wish her the best.
Of such is Chioma Phillips the editor of Msingi Afrika Magazine and the Host of Stories from Africa.
You have in many ways over the years shown your undying passion for the continent of Africa and every celebration is worth it.
Thanks for taking a stand for Africa.
Have a Happy and a Blessed Birthday.

29/06/2024

"I'll be here every day. Scared, maybe arrested, maybe killed, but let's do it!"

"Are you killing us or protecting us?"

These are not statements from jobless youths, but words from those who have seen the system of oppression and mismanagement of national resources and how foreign hands manipulate national sovereignties in Africa. This should be an African protest against all forms of indiscipline and mismanagement by African leaders.

Video credit: Larry Madowo CNN.

27/06/2024

If you want to know and understand where the global narrative is headed, pay attention to what topics and ideas are heavily censored online. The topic of HPV vaccines and the rise in infertility cases in Africa, even among young people is very mind-boggling.
We uploaded the full video on YouTube yesterday and less than one hour before it even premiered, it was deleted and we were suspended from sharing videos on our YouTube channel for one week. But what does that mean? NSSM-200 comes to mind and the various depopulation agendas that seek to remove "the less useful" humans from the planet.
You can watch the full video on our Rumble account via the link below:https://rumble.com/v5421w0-africas-fertility-matters-we-cannot-trust-who-with-the-reproductive-health-.html

21/06/2024

"Respect is never a given, it cannot be purchased, it must be earned" - Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President, AfDB.

As Africans, we must make decisions and choices if we want to forge a new future that is inclusive of all our strengths and the continent's great potential. We must break from our backs the culture and attitudes of servitude and support ourselves to rise.

Watch the full video via the link below:
https://youtu.be/egwYufGLyMo?si=NqwTCVMNjTEqJCIK

13/06/2024

A word is enough...be wise.

12/06/2024

What is Bill Gates really doing in Nigeria, Africa?
Why are Nigerian medical doctors the target of genocide?
It's easy to call anyone who is saying what you don't want to hear a conspiracy theorist. But when the effects of what you are refusing to hear start to hit you in the face, who will you blame?
There is a sinister agenda by some faceless entities to cripple the people of the world and then subject them to new forms of slavery, but you have the power to stop the agenda. You need to stop reading the black-and-white lines and begin to really read the grey areas. That's where the real agendas are. Be that person who goes on a hunt for TRUTH.
Watch the full video via the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjPn5eiaRs&t=32s

08/06/2024

Ask yourself how until recently, when Terrence Howard (holder of 97 patents) put forth the question, no one has deemed it fit to ask why 1+1 equals 2 but 1x1 equals 1. But do you know that as simple as that question is, the correct answer to 1x1 and the adjustment of world mathematics to fit the correct answer can crash the entire global banking and finance system? Including taxation, salary structures, insurance, everything connected to money, numbers, and everything in between. But this a good example of the power of one and the change that one question can create in a world system that was created and sustained to raise zombies and non-free thinkers.

The same question can be asked; why is One US dollar worth 132 Kenyan Shillings or why should the same One US dollar be worth 1471 Nigerian Naira? Don’t let them give you stupid economics that makes no sense as to why that is, using indices that were created by the very minds that want you in perpetual financial bo***ge.

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07/06/2024

"Men with hair like sisal, who move on the air, water, and land in vessels will come, they will take away our land and destroy our culture."
These are the words of Me’poho, a Mijikenda Prophetess from Kenya. True to her words, colonialism happened and by some acts of internal sabotage and external manipulations, neo-colonization is at work again. But now, as Africans, we must look beyond all that has been done and all that we have allowed to be done to us and then move into a narrative of telling Africa's beautiful and positive stories, like only we can tell them.

"Men with hair like sisal, who move on the air, water, and land in vessels will come, they will take away our land and destroy our culture." These are the wo...

06/06/2024

In 2021, we interviewed our good friend Dr Jack Githae at his farm in Nyeri. The conversation was around developing Africa's indigenous medicine and health care system. Somewhere in the conversation, he mentioned that if something is not done quickly about the construction "boom" in Nairobi, less than fifty years from now, Nairobi will be uninhabitable. His words back then sounded quite extreme, but is it?
In this month's issue of the Msingi Afrika Magazine, we featured John Wills Njoroge article about real-life mental health crises associated with noise pollution from construction sites in Nairobi.
https://www.msingiafrikamagazine.com/2024/06/from-birdsongs-to-bulldozers-the-human-cost-of-nairobis-construction-boom/
Take a look.

It is 4:30 a.m. in Nairobi and all night the pregnant clouds obliged thanks to the climate change crisis that ushered the rain that descended indiscriminately disturbing the human rest sequence.  The clouds are dark, and the showers are unkind and unforgiving. The community where birds once kept tw...

03/06/2024

There is an increasing number of cash crop producers and flower exporters in developing countries while these countries suffer from food insecurity. In Ethiopia, too, more farmers have begun producing Khat instead of vegetables because it yields more profit. The tech industry also focuses on satisfying the greed of the capitalist. During the industrial revolution, the machines were made to make life simple, despite the consequence. Currently, more and more technologies focus on producing gadgets that serve as toys and make people lazy - Abel Merawi, Ethiopian Writer and Scholar.
https://www.msingiafrikamagazine.com/2024/06/capitalism-becoming-an-impediment-to-morality/
Article by Abel Merawi, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

*Originally published on the author's website in 2020 When COVID-19 became a global pandemic, America was no exception. But the way the US handled it as a capitalist makes it an exception. In America, the novel coronavirus hit New York the hardest and the availability of medical supplies stood as a....

21/05/2024

He who controls your food and controls the policies around your factors of production, will definitely control you.
The punitive seed laws against African farmers must be stopped.
Watch full video via the link below.
Zambia Alliance for Agroecology and Biodiversity GRAIN Organic farmers kenya Organic Consumers Alliance - OCA
https://youtu.be/G4oEIhlBDeU?si=CtjU2Ggo7IyvQjct

20/05/2024

We must fight against this wickedness or in a few years from now, all we will have left will be GMOs.

19/05/2024

When brothers spend their time fighting, strangers will take their land - An African proverb.

This is the case in most African countries. The non-stop rhetoric and narratives of wars, insurgency, violence, etc. But why are we not given more attention to things that create unity and economic growth in the continent?

Article by: Lawrence Freeman, USA.

If Ethiopia is going to have access to a port, then there must be long term agreement, Lawrence Freeman explains why With around 120 million people, Ethiopia is said to be the most populous land locked country in the world. Since the separation of Eritrea with a declaration of independence in 1991,....