Kenya's UN Ambassador Martin Kimani — Live from the Aspen Security Forum

Global Dispatches host Mark Leon Goldberg interviewed Martin Kimani live at the Aspen Security Forum in mid-July 2022, in an episode published August 10, 2022. The conversation covers the crafting and reception of Kimani's February 2022 UN Security Council statement on Ukraine, the parallels he drew between Russian aggression and Africa's own colonial history, the war's impact on Kenya, and the prospects for multilateralism in an increasingly divided world. Kimani is quoted describing Russian aggression against Ukraine as "so resonant to Africa's own experience with colonialism," the throughline connecting the episode's historical and contemporary themes.