Ken Kagicha

Deputy Africa Editor

Ken Kagicha has over 12 years of experience working as a reporter and editor for print, broadcast and digital news platforms in Kenya.

Articles by Ken Kagicha

1 Apr, 2025 11:45 EDT

Africa Society & Culture Church & Missions

Innovative program counters physical and spiritual poverty in West Africa: improving nutrition and generating income for evangelism

By Ken Kagicha

A West African organisation is working with local churches and rural communities in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to support small-scale farmers in the production of cereals, diversifying nutritional intake and boosting incomes in a region increasingly facing climate change challenges.
22 Mar, 2025 07:52 EDT

Africa Family & Children

From an orphanage in Sierra Leone to family-care: Emmanuel Nabs calls on Christians to rethink care for vulnerable children

By Ken Kagicha

For a man who spent his better part of his childhood in an orphanage in Sierra Leone, it would be safe to assume that Emmanuel Mohamed Nabieu, fondly known as Nabs, would be a passionate advocate of orphanages. But from his decade-long experience in a children’s care centre and now as Director of the same center where he grew up in, Nabs believes there is a better and more sustainable model of supporting vulnerable children.
21 Mar, 2025 09:25 EDT

Africa Church & Missions

A community in Kenya went to extreme lengths to find water for baptism after 68 surrendered their lives to Christ

By Ken Kagicha

When 68 men and women from an indigenous community in Northern Kenya surrendered their lives to Jesus as part of an outreach and evangelism programme, they faced a difficult but common dilemma in this vast and arid region. The community living in Turkana County in Northern Kenya often walk up to 3 hours to the nearest water point, mainly boreholes, wells and springs. Despite the challenges of finding water in the area, a group of evangelists and community members were determined to have a water
19 Mar, 2025 06:15 EDT

Africa Church & Missions

African women have been underrepresented in Church leadership but this is changing, says Seble Daniel, WEA Womens lead

By Ken Kagicha Timothy Goropevsek

The rapid growth and vibrant pulse of the African church is often powered by the unwavering faith and tireless commitment of women, sometimes constituting up to 90% of congregants in some churches. Yet, this numerical strength often stands in stark contrast to their representation in leadership, a reality that Dr. Seble Daniel grapples with in her role as the executive director for the Women's Commission at the World Evangelical Alliance.
14 Mar, 2025 06:30 EDT

Africa Church & Missions

Over 4,000 commit to follow Jesus at ‘Encountering God’ gathering in Ethiopia as Franklin Graham proclaims the 'unchanging Gospel'

By Ken Kagicha

Sixty-five years after his father, the late Billy Graham, first preached in Addis Ababa, Franklin Graham returned to the Ethiopian capital for a two-day evangelistic outreach on March 8-9 dubbed "Encountering God," drawing hundreds of thousands and witnessing over 4,000 commitments to Jesus Christ.
6 Mar, 2025 23:55 EST

Africa Church & Missions Education

Africa's Church growth outstrips theological training capacity, sparking innovative solutions, ACTEA head says

By Ken Kagicha Timothy Goropevsek

The Christian landscape is undergoing a significant transformation, with the center of gravity shifting decisively towards the Global South, particularly Africa. This unprecedented Church growth presents both immense opportunities and considerable challenges, especially for theological education.
5 Mar, 2025 04:50 EST

Africa Society & Culture

From food aid to food security: How reclaiming the Sahel desert is greening Niger and enhancing livelihoods

By Ken Kagicha

A groundbreaking regeneration project in Niger, West Africa has proved successful in reclaiming land from the harsh Sahara desert turning it into lush arable land, feeding half a million people who had depended on food aid for years.
23 Feb, 2025 08:30 EST

Africa Family & Children

The Afrogiveness Movement: helping victims in Central and West Africa find healing through forgiveness and art

By Ken Kagicha

A trauma and counselling programme in Cameroon has integrated forgiveness and art to restore lives of traumatized internally displaced people and other survivors of conflict in Central and West Africa including Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict that broke out in 2018.
13 Feb, 2025 09:05 EST

Africa Family & Children

Tanzanian gospel artiste Rehema Simfukwe on how her daughter with cerebral palsy has shaped her ministry

By Ken Kagicha

Tanzanian award-winning gospel artist, Rehema Simfukwe, has revealed how taking care of her daughter with cerebral palsy changed her life and her ministry. Simfukwe narrated her journey of taking care of her 6-year old daughter in a 10 minute personal documentary uploaded on her YouTube account.
11 Feb, 2025 09:59 EST

Africa Religious Freedom

Nairobi to host Africa’s first International Religious Freedom Summit

By Ken Kagicha

Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, will host Africa’s first International Religious Freedom Summit on 16th June 2025. Kenya’s Chief Justice Martha Koome announced that the inaugural meeting will gather judicial officers and organisations working to promote religious freedom from across the continent.
4 Feb, 2025 06:02 EST

Africa Church & Missions Society & Culture

MC Popo: Spreading hope and the love of Christ through dance in Kenya’s biggest slum

By Ken Kagicha

In the heart of Kibra, Kenya’s biggest informal settlement just 10 kilometers from Nairobi’s Central Business District, you will find Aziri Come Kazudi popularly known as MC Popo either teaching children how to dance, leading a Bible Study or counseling teens caught up in crime or drug abuse.
30 Jan, 2025 07:35 EST

Africa Church & Missions

Anglican Communion's Nairobi-Cairo proposals seek to overcome divisive issues, preserve unity

By Ken Kagicha

The Anglican Communion's recently released draft measures attempt to handle divisive contemporary issues such as ordination of women and treatment of same-sex marriage within the Anglican Church that spans 165 countries. The proposals also redefine some of the responsibilities of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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