With profound sadness and heavy hearts we share the news of the passing of a beloved movement leader and comrade Njoki Njehû, who passed away peacefully at home in Nairobi on the morning of Saturday 18th July. Her role in building Fight Inequality Alliance, among her many other achievements as a leading Pan African feminist over many decades means her loss is felt across our whole movement, even as her legacy endures.
Millions of Mexicans took to the streets, filled public squares, improvised screens, and celebrated with strangers as if we had known each other all our lives. Isn’t that, in the end, the dream of any community? We did not watch the tournament in the stadiums, we watched in the streets, in public squares, in markets, in homes — that is where we felt the world cup truly was. The people’s World Cup, not FIFA’s.
At the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the US, Canada, and Mexico, history is being made. Yet not everyone is watching. Over half a billion people in the Global South are missing out because they have no electricity. The irony is stark: Africa holds immense energy potential and yet remains in the dark with little or no meaningful investment in many countries to light up households.
Pride gets more colourful every year, meanwhile the lives of many LGBTQ+ people get more expensive, arduous and isolated. For queer people, the cost-of-living crisis isn't just inflation, it is inflation plus discrimination in schools, at home, and work – it is violence plus a lack of human rights – and let's not forget condemnation from the choir and congregation.