DIASPORA NEWS

Leaders of the Riyadha Mosque and Islamic Centre in Lamu have demanded an apology from a US-based Kenyan designer for misusing the mosque’s portrait. This comes days after US singer and businessman Jay Z was spotted exiting a restaurant in California last week donning a T-shirt bearing the image of…

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has revealed plans to develop a framework that will offer incentives to Kenyans in the diaspora who set up businesses back home. CBK Governor Patrick Njoroge says they will rely on the findings of a study the bank carried out recently to draft a facilitative policy that…

Kenyan comedian Francis Onono, alias Brigeddia General, on Friday graduated from the US military academy. Onono broke the good news through Facebook, describing his graduation as a dream come true. Onono, who makes regular appearances on The Churchill Show, said he graduated as a soldier at Fort…

US-based Kenyan scholar Prof. Makau Mutua has expressed his opinion on the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine whose private rollout in Kenya was banned on Friday. Mutua, who is also an attorney, said the Russian-made jab was yet to be approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US, terming it…

Prof. Edward Ombati Manyibe, a Kenyan-born scholar has been elected as the new chairman of Langston University Faculty Senate, an influential position in the governance and management of the institution. The faculty senate is the highest decision-making body of Langston University, the first and…

Renowned US-based Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been nominated for the prestigious 2021 International Booker Prize for his novel The Perfect Nine. Ngugi, 83, becomes the first writer to be nominated for the International Booker Prize in the categories of both author and translator. He is also…

Popular Kenyan singer Simon Kimani, better known by his stage name Bamboo, claims that he was bewitched after returning to Kenya from the US nine years ago. Speaking during a recent interview, the rapper said people who were jealous of his success used witchcraft to destroy him. “When I came back…

At the age of 24 years, Kenyan-American woman Joy Ngugi is one of the youngest White House staff members. Joy, who was born in Kenya but grew up in the US, works in the White House's Office of Digital Strategy as a producer and recently directed the first official White House musical performance…

Former US President Barack Obama has mourned his grandmother Mama Sarah Obama, who died on Monday aged 99.   Mama Sarah, who was the third wife of the paternal grandfather of Obama, died at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kisumu on Monday morning after a short…

Kenyans in the diaspora have shared their opinions and experiences about the COVID-19 vaccine. Some Kenyans living and working abroad said they have already taken the jab while those who are yet to be inoculated said they are planning to.  Peter Oluoch, a Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. student at…