DIASPORA NEWS

An Australian Court has handed former Kenyan TV presenter Esther Arunga a 10-month prison sentence after she pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to manslaughter in her son’s murder case. However, the 38-year-old barrister will not serve prison time as Justice Martin Burns…

Quincy Timberlake's mother, Rosemeg Wambita has come to the defense of her son hours after her daughter-in-law Esther Arunga admitted to lying to Australian police about the death of their son in order to protect her husband. Appearing before Australian court Justice Martin Burns on Monday, Arunga…

A new book that seeks to help Kenyans looking forward to migrating to the United States has been launched. Titled The American Success Pathways: How to Realise Your American Dreams and Desires, the book was unveiled in Nairobi on Saturday. The book is authored by Janet Kisaka Rangi, a Kenyan nurse…

An inquest into the mysterious death of former Kenyan television queen Esther Arunga’s three-year-old son has taken a new twist.  This comes after Ms. Arunga on Monday pleaded guilty to being an accessory to murder after the fact to manslaughter Ms. Arunga admitted to lying to Australian…

US-based Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has been named the winner of this year’s Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize.  Ngugi won the prestigious award for his enlightening anti-colonial themes, use of traditional African narration, and his advocacy of preserving the mother tongue as a mark of…

A Kenyan man passed away in Allen County, Ohio in a vehicle collision involving two commercial trucks. Alex Wanjiru, 39, of Whitehall, Pennsylvania, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident that occurred at approximately 4:25pm on Wednesday on US 30 in Allen County, Ohio. Ohio State Highway…

A Kenyan man has passed away in Baltimore, Maryland after drowning at a lake at the Golden Ring Park. First responders from the Baltimore County Fire Department on Wednesday at 6:10pm responded to a call of a person under water at a lake at the Golden Ring Park on Fontana Lane. The man, who was…

A Kenyan family is desperately looking for their kin who went missing in Germany about two weeks ago.  34-year-old Benson Wachira, a student at the University of Duisburg-Essen disappeared on June 29th and efforts to trace him have been fruitless. On that fateful day, Wachira left work in…

Kenya diaspora remittances in 2018 were more than those of the rest of Eastern Africa countries combined, a latest report by World Bank shows. Kenyans living and working abroad sent home Sh280 billion in the period under review, according to World Bank data. In the same period, diaspora communities…

A video of Kenyan-Mexican Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong’o dancing with American singer Janelle Monae has gone viral on social media. The two celebrities danced together during Janelle's Dirty Computer tour at London’s SSE Wembley Arena. The crowd went wild after Ms. Monae introduced Lupita as her…