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"The Kenyan President is a Colonizer"
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
08 Aug 2025
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Black Agenda Radio · "The Kenyan President is a Colonizer"

Marcela Onyango is a Luo stand-up comedian and writer based in Brooklyn and Washington DC. She is the founder of Feel the News on TikTok, a columnist for Shado Mag and host of a monthly show, Feel the News at Friends and Lovers in Brooklyn. She joins us from Brooklyn to discuss her Substack post, “The Kenyan President is a Colonizer” analyzing colonization and its deeper meanings regarding events in Kenya and our own understanding of that term.

 

Kenya
William Ruto
Colonialism
imperialism

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