Africa's silence on Ukraine crisis exposes our double standards

A woman takes a picture of artwork that might have been made by British street artist Banksy on a building destroyed by fighting in Borodyanka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. [AP Photo]

A delegation of Ukrainian leaders was in Nairobi this week. Listening to their experiences over the last nine months, I wondered whether we have become too numbed by our own experiences as a continent, to care enough.

Led by Ukrainian Orthodox Church Archbishop Evstratiy Zorya, human rights right activist Oleksandra Drik, Politics Professor Olexiy Haran and Chamber of Commerce Director Anna Liubmya, the delegation told harrowing stories of human rights abuses laced with examples of Ukrainian and Russian courage.