Welcome to Arjen Westra’s Blog. Arjen is freelance Africa journalist, travelling the continent and publishing stories in Dutch and Belgium-based newspapers and magazines since 2002. On this place, you can read about his where

Got up around 6.21 am this morning, as usual. Having strong black coffee and reading the Kenyan newspapers. They are writing about the Media Conference in Nairobi. African people blame the media for giving

Stalls where destroyed in the night. According to Nairobi City Council because thieves where hiding in the stalls. ‘They came at two last night’, a lady told me. ‘Soldiers of the special forces where

Travelling from Kampala to Nairobi with the late afternoonbus. A stop at the border and Ugandan streetkids, apparently full of glue or other drugs, where coming to me. Voices from the dark asking for

Big Issue Kaapstad (Zuid Afrika)- Op de kruising tussen Buitengragt en de weg die naar Victoria en Albert Waterfront leidt, staat een vrouw nonchalant met een Big Issue in haar hand, de daklozenkrant die