Dinesh D'Souza, a conservative American author, has found a gold mine in exploiting Obama's Kenyan roots. He is making millions with his 2016: Obama's America documentary, which portrays President Barack Obama as a socialist who owes his "radical left-wing" beliefs to the influence of his late father, Barack...

True heroes of Africa often lie in unmarked graves. Their achievements are only celebrated by a minority of dissidents who are sparsely located around the continent and throughout its diaspora. Stifled by the fabricated feats of the African neo-colonialist aristocracy, the legacy left by our unsung heroes is more endangered...

Sam Harris is an American public intellectual and a neuroscientist. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers "The End of Faith," "Letter to a Christian Nation," "The Moral Landscape," and "Free Will."

Dear Sam,

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The viral Kony 2012 video by Invisible Children has spurred a debate, especially about the portrayal of Africa by Westerners. While the video has succeeded in its objective of making Joseph Kony a household name, critics have argued that it oversimplifies and misrepresents the Lord's Resistance Army conflict and that...

In August 2011, Mark Orrs , a sixth year Ph.D. student at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), was standing on a dirt field in Dagoretti, Kenya, watching a group of girls playing soccer. For many months prior to Mark's visit to Kenya, Amos Kimani,...

If you live in the U.S. and you are:

•In bondage
•Having bad dreams
•Under a witchcraft attack or oppression
•Possessed by mermaid spirits or other evil spirits
•Barren and having frequent miscarriages
•Experiencing an unsuccessful life of disappointment

Africa has just lost one of its greatest allies in the fight for human rights. The death of Christopher Hitchens, one of the most prolific adversaries of pernicious superstitions, is a big blow, especially to a continent where children and elderly women are subjected to physical harm on suspicion of...

The Occupy Wall Street movement has propelled a monsoon of democratic awakening and courage to confront the powers that be on income disparities and socioeconomic injustices. It has been met with widespread support in many countries in the world, revealing the extent of corporate impunity and oligarchic exploitation. Nevertheless, the...

In Dagoretti, a small town on the outskirts of Nairobi, poverty lures many children into homelessness. They are known as chokoraa, an epithet that translates to "garbage-eaters" because the children -- most of them being boys -- survive by scavenging through people's trash trying to find pieces of food.

They...

Kenya's recent military offensive against Al- Shabaab has elicited a worldwide conversation about the political future of war-torn Somalia. Al- Shabaab, an Islamist terror group in Somalia with links to Al- Qaeda, has been suspected of crossing through the Kenyan border and kidnapping foreign aid workers and Western tourists. This...

In an overwhelmingly patriarchal society as my home country Kenya, it is very hard to imagine that a woman can rise to the stature of being mentioned in the same breath as humanitarian luminaries like Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. From a society that has been very adamant to...

Following the death of Osama bin Laden, President Obama announced that justice had been done. Bin Laden supporters were quick to point that he had died a "martyr." Bin Laden himself had predicted his own "martyrdom" if he was to fall at the hands of Americans and their allies. A...

I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our baby brother while our mother went to work. She would be employed to hand-wash...