About

"Onjalazbroz is the East African analytical voice on global affairs, public-health systems, and the post-colonial condition — written from Kisumu, read globally, and unafraid to name empire when it sees it."

 

The manifesto

 "Onjalazbroz exists to test the foundation of knowledge. We write from the conviction that African commentary on global affairs is not a niche — it is a corrective. For too long the world has been explained by capitals that produced its crises. We explain it from a vantage point that has lived those crises: colonialism, structural adjustment, the aid industry, the new scramble for resources, the public-health emergencies that reveal which lives the global system considers expendable. We are not neutral. We are evidence-driven. We oppose capitalism as currently organized, we oppose imperialism in all its forms, and we are skeptical of mainstream feminism as currently constituted because it has too often been weaponized against the very communities it claims to liberate. We write to be read, cited, and argued with — not to be agreed with comfortably."

 The three pillars

Global Politics from an African Lens — International affairs, foreign policy, geopolitics, China-Africa, US-Africa, conflicts, multilateralism. Analyzed from a non-Western vantage.

Public Health & State Capacity — Outbreak response, health-system audits, pandemic preparedness, donor dependency, WHO/CDC benchmarking. The Bundibugyo series lives here.

Culture, Faith & the Post-Colonial Condition — Marriage, family, language, religion, multiculturalism, the human terrain where empire meets daily life.

 Who I am

"I'm David O. Onjala, a writer and quality-assurance professional based in Kisumu, Kenya. I've been writing Onjalazbroz since 2018 — first as a personal archive, now as a deliberate project to build East African analytical authority on the questions that matter. My background in quality assurance shapes the method: evidence first, position second, never the reverse. I read widely, write slowly, and publish on a fixed weekly cadence."

The ask

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