Editors note:WardheerNews is honored to share once again an insightful interview with the renowned Kenyan writer and veteran journalist, Rasna Warah, who sadly passed away on January 11, Rasna a Kenyan of Indian decent, was a celebrated voice in African journalism, known for her sharp intellect, fearless commentary, and dedication to shedding light on critical social and political issues.
The interview serves as a tribute to her remarkable legacy and contributions to journalism, literature, and advocacy for justice and equality. It offers readers a glimpse into the mind of a trailblazer whose work inspired many across the globe. Rasna was the author of several acclaimed books, including Mogadishu Then and Now () and UNsilenced: Unmasking the United Nations’ Culture of Cover-Ups, Corruption, and Impunity (). WardheerNews conducted this in-depth interview with Rasna, exploring her books and her keen interest in Somalia. The interview was conducted by Abdelkarim Hassan on October 24, , and delved into her perspectives on the region and her broader literary and journalistic endeavors.
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Journalist Rasna Warah is dead. Her family confirmed the death on Saturday January 11 in a post on social media accounts. She had been battling an undisclosed illness. &#;Hello all. Rasna Warah passed away a couple of hours ago. More details to follow,&#; Zahid Rajan posted in a WhatsApp group. She and her family lived in Malindi. Rasna Warah was a Kenyan writer and journalist. In a previous incarnation, she was an editor at the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). She has published two books on Somalia – War Crimes () and Mogadishu Then and Now () – and is the author UNsilenced (), and Triple Heritage (). From till she worked for the UN as editor of the State of the World’s Cities report and Habitat Debate, and has written for the Mail and Guardian, the East African, Cityscapes, State of the World, UN Chronicle and Kwani? I fell in love with Rasna Warah’s fierce feminist writing when I was around 19 years old. Her column, ‘Straight from the Heart’, ran in Now magazine, a pullout of ‘The Standard on Sunday’ until the editor-in-chief discontinued it when the newspaper’s new owners said they did not like it. During my brief sojourn as an editor at ‘The Standard’, I persuaded Rasna to write a couple of times for the Sunday paper and gave her a standing invitation with the authority of my editor, David Makali, to write a column, which she was unable to because she was caring for her sick mother. When I rejoined the ‘Nation’ as a columnist in , Rasna was writing her column on Monday, easily the hardest day for a newspaper, but she grew a loyal readership with her straight-shooting, deeply researched and intelligent writing. She had left the United Nations, where she worked as an editor for over a decade, after it failed to renew her contract most likely as retaliation for her whistleblowing on the use of erroneous statistics, abuse of authority and misconduct. Two of her five books -- ‘UNsilenced’ and ‘Lords of Impunity’ --deal with the troubl
Celebrated Kenyan-born author, national journalist and activist Rasna Warah () and whose daring and rebellious spirit witnessed her fiercely independent selfhood, passed away in the early days of January of , losing probably her only battle in life - but bravely against a two-year long struggle with cancer, without which she likely had many many fiery decades ahead of her. Rasna's autobiography, Triple Heritage: A Journey to Self Discovery, published in , traces the record of the Kenyan Indians in an effort to understand herself as a child of three worlds. She observes that the contribution of Indians to British rule in East Africa “left them with neither the authority of the oppressor nor the humanity of the oppressed". Born in Nairobi, she was the great-granddaughter to Bhagat Singh, who landed on the shores of Mombasa as an early pioneer migrant in - one of Kenya's saintly personalities of his time, and he was so vigorous about his health that he not only lived to hit a century, but also inspired his sons Gurcharan Singh ‘Guru’ and Jaswant Singh ‘Master’ to become cricketing legends of Nairobi's Khalsa Union (est. ), now Sikh Union,
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