MY POINT OF VIEW

In an era when google is a verb, smartphones have become an extension of our hands, Facebook has de-socialized human interaction and Twitter has become our main source of news;  there is a war going on in our midst. Not many are aware of this war but many have been casualties of this war. Most still have been drafted into this war without realizing it. It is a war that has far reaching implications to the foundation on which human society and civilisation is built upon. This is the information warfare. Or by its familiar name fake news. In the run-up to Kenya’s general election in August, media reported that the two leading coalitions had hired the services of reputable consulting companies. One of this consulting company is the Cambridge Analytica. While officially the company was hired to help the Jubilee party research on voter dynamics and polling, unofficially it used psychological manipulation by designing ads on social media by use of personal data on those sites. The...

Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh American journalist and explorer credited with exploration and mapping of central Africa. He wrote his encounters in two books among them Through the Dark Continent (1878) coining the term dark continent that many atrocities, suffering and exploitation would be committed. His achievements as a journalist across the world and explorer in Africa are well documented. His cruelty, racism, inhumane treatment as well as contempt for black-skinned people probably outweigh any significant achievement he claimed. In a matter of a century or so, the Europeans forgot the wonders and beauty that the Romans spoke about Africa as a land of rolling savannas, green covered mountains and meandering rivers; they forgot about wealth that the Arabs, Persians and Indians came to carve out in the various international trade taking place in Africa; they forgot about the great and mighty army of Kush that couldn’t even be defeated by superpower Rome; they forgot about th...