Going back to Nairobi
This complicated year, with all its horrors, is also the one bringing me back to Kenya, a country that thought more than any other, as a journalist, and as a ongoing student of world affairs.
Dear friends and readers,
Hope you’ve been well…
After Senegal, South Africa, Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, my job is now sending me to Kenya, a place where I was a freelance correspondent over a decade ago, covering aso Uganda, Ethiopia and Somalia.
I learned a lot about how bias our western news cycles are, how enormous and diverse Africa is, how badly represented as well, and these lessons can impact anything we read and enlighten all our leaders decisions…
Yet, a lot has changed between 2012 and 2026.
As Macron’s France promises to be a new form of better partner for the continent, can it convince? Is it even needed?
Let’s dive… then look at other parts of the continent, and of the world.
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