• Colonisation was, and is, wrong. Thinking one's dignity is better than another's is wrong.

• Now let's flip it for a moment — it affects both parties.

• Soumaya puts it plainly: "The coloniser is as affected, as traumatised as the people who were colonised."

• Let that sit for a second.

• She goes further: "Looking at a people… and thinking thwa people are lesser than me and I'm going to colonise them and extract their resources — for me that's a bad thing."

• We all need to decolonise — coloniser and colonised.

• Soumaya Fikri is the  zillennial voice exploring the discomfort we'd rather avoid — the identity crisis that is a consequence of colonialism.
  
• Our host @Wairimu Gitahi unpacks it with her.

Has social media taught us to perform grief?

Tuba lost her father, mother, and sister within the span of a year and nine months. As part of her mourning, she refuses to grieve on social media — no crying emojis, no photos of black roses, no somber profile pictures. She does not want her loved ones to become a source of social media engagement. Her loss, she says, is too sacred for social media.

In the midst of all this, grief has taught her something unexpected: how to be more joyful.

Hit play to hear her story...

Producer & Host: Wairimu Gitahi

Reviewer: Michael Kaloki

What happens when young law students decide that justice shouldn’t be locked behind cost or status?

In this episode of Inspired by Africa, Wairimu Gitahi speaks with Dr. Jennifer Gitahi, the initiator of a project providing pro bono legal services to underserved communities, alongside two brilliant legal minds helping bring it to life—Georgia Nyawara and Kiwara Irungu. This initiative is based at Strathmore University’s Law School in Nairobi, Kenya, and brings together students from across Africa.

This is more than legal aid. It’s a growing movement reshaping what justice looks like in everyday life.

Producer & Host: Wairimu Gitahi

Content Reviewer: Michael Kaloki

Duclair Fopa, a 24-year-old Cameroonian, has built a plug-in that gives deaf people and those with hearing disabilities genuine access to online content — and no, it's not another captions or subtitles tool. Those aren't true accessibility: they strip out critical information like emotion, tone, and grammatical nuance. Duclair's solution is different, and it's affordable. Listen to find out how...

Producer & Host: Wairimu Gitahi

Content Reviewer: Michael Kaloki

While refugee children across the world face the harsh realities of war and displacement, Jamie Jibberish keeps showing up with a treasure box full of magic tricks, laughter, and wonder — creating moments of lightness for these children.

As a humanitarian magician, he travels to refugee camps across different countries, performing for these refugee children. Many of these children come from countries such as Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Somalia.

Producer & Host: Wairimu Gitahi

Content Reviewer: Michael Kaloki

Photo courtesy: Jamie Balfour Paul

What does it actually feel like to live in a body that is constantly fighting itself? Living with lupus, Treza Wangari shares her story with Wairimu Gitahi.

Producer & Host: Wairimu Gitahi

Content Reviewer: Michael Kaloki

What does it actually feel like to live in a body that is constantly fighting itself? Living with lupus, Treza Wangari shares her story with Wairimu Gitahi

Producer & Host: Wairimu Gitahi

Content Reviewer: Micheal Kaloki

In this episode, Gabriella shares a powerful story of resilience and identity—shaped by the experience of being forced to flee her beloved country, South Sudan, due to war.

Producer & Host: Wairimu Gitahi

Content Reviewer: Michael Kaloki

Moulid Hujale, 32, talks about his escape from the civil war in Somalia at just ten years, struggles while seeking asylum, especially in Daadab camp  in Northern Kenya and how they have shaped his life in ways he would never have imagined. Hujale also explains why he doesn't like being defined as a refugee. He now lives in the UK and is hopeful that peace will return to his motherland....Listen in!