Russian Gov’t-Owned TV Hands Kenya’s PLO Lumumba New Show For Africa
Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, a Kenyan lawyer with exceptional oratory skills, was announced last week as the new host of Lumumba’s Africa, a TV show broadcast on RT, a global TV station owned by the Russian government.
The show’s introductory article, written by Anna Belkina, RT’s deputy editor-in-chief and head of communications, will provide a thorough and insightful look at the African continent.
She added that the show is based in Africa.
“We are also proud to present a new show on RT, based out of Kenya – ‘Lumumba’s Africa’, with Professor P.L.O. Lumumba. The program delivers a deep and insightful look into the matters that are still most salient to Africa as a whole and many of its nations,” she explained.
“Professor P.L.O. Lumumba takes his audience on a dramatic and educated tale of African issues like economic development, the colonial legacy, energy, education – and, most vividly, the bright hope for the future of Africa itself.”
To promote the show, RT launched an advertising campaign that will run throughout the summer of 2024 in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
In Kenya, billboards featuring the station’s parakeet green logo and the faces of African leaders such as the late Milton Obote and Julius Nyerere appeared throughout the capital city.
''The message that is being sent to the president by the Gen Z is that we want Change'' PLO Lumumba tells President Ruto what the GEN Z are saying amidst the Protests. pic.twitter.com/H6UeEgPEex
— The Kenyan Vigilante (@KenyanSays) August 1, 2024
Belkina noted in her article that for nearly two decades, RT has battled what she describes as pervasive Western mainstream media dominance.
“America’s CNN and the New York Times, Britain’s BBC and The Guardian have dictated to the likes of Russia, India, South Africa, Indonesia and dozens and dozens of countries what to believe about the world and themselves; who is good and who is bad; what is black and what is white,” she wrote.
“I am sure that there will be even more provocative questions that RT will seek to ask in the months to come. Why borrow money from the IMF if your country is rich in natural resources? Do international corporations care more about African people or their own profits?” she posed.
“Do European leaders dream about getting their colonies back? Should the West pay reparations for slavery? Why did Nigeria nearly get dragged into a war over US and French interests in neighboring Niger? Should the US dollar remain the main global reserve currency?”
Lumumba has been an advocate of the High Court of Kenya and Tanzania, as well as the Director of The Kenya School of Laws, since 2014.
He has a Bachelor of Laws, a Master of Laws, and a PhD in the Laws of the Sea from the University of Ghent in Belgium.
Russian Gov’t-Owned TV Hands Kenya’s PLO Lumumba New Show For Africa
