DIASPORA NEWS

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…

Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o says winning an Oscar Award made it easy for her to acquire the United States Green Card. Speaking during an interview with Thanu Yakupitiyage and Rage Kidvai of the ‘Bad Brown Aunties’ podcast, Lupita said she struggled to establish herself in the US as she…

After living in the United States for many years, four Kenyan immigrants joined hands six years ago to establish one of the fastest-growing freight companies in the country. The four; Alex Karundu, Michael Njenga, Herbert Lang'at and Bernard Lang'at formed Seagate Holdings LLC in 2014 through a…

A Kenyan aviation student was on Tuesday arrested in the Philippines with bomb-making materials. Philippine News Agency reported that Cholo Abdi Abdullah was nabbed at Rasca Hotel in Iba, Zambales, a province in the northwest of the Philippines. The country's Director of Criminal Investigations and…