AFRIKHA ROOTS
NETWORK.
A Pan-Afrikan consciousness channel, built from Nairobi — telling the story of Afrika and the global Afrikan world on Afrikan terms.
Ujima — the people carrying this work.
Not a masthead built for its own sake — four people, doing the work, answerable by name.
Read full bios ↓The spelling is not an accident.
In ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) philosophy, the Kha is one of the aspects of the human soul — the luminous, transfigured spiritual essence that persists beyond the body. The immortal intellect. The divine spark.
By carrying Kha inside AfriKHA, this channel is making a claim, not a spelling choice: Afrika has a soul. An eternal, undefeated spiritual core that colonialism could not touch and cannot destroy. That is the philosophical ground everything else here is built on.
What we're here to do, and what we're building toward.
Tell the story properly.
To produce and distribute serious, rigorous, Pan-Afrikan documentary and analysis content that tells the story of Afrika and the global Afrikan world from an Afrikan-centred perspective — accessible, shareable and compelling, for Afrikan audiences on the continent and in the diaspora.
One shared story, told right.
To become the leading Pan-Afrikan consciousness channel in the Afrikan digital media space — a channel a young Kenyan, a Ghanaian student, an Afro-Brazilian, an Afrikan American and a Jamaican can all watch, and see their shared story told with intelligence, depth and unapologetic Afrikan pride.
A few lines we won't cross.
Everything we make lives inside one of five pillars.
Whether it's a full documentary or a 60-second clip, every piece of ARN content answers to one of these.
Where we came from, what we built, and what was done to us and how we resisted — Kemet to the Mau Mau.
Who governs Afrika and how — the Afrikan Union, colonial borders, coups, and who's still trying to call the shots.
How Afrika becomes prosperous on its own terms — trade, resources, debt, and economic sovereignty.
Music, film, language, spirituality, family — proof of a civilisation that was never actually destroyed.
Black America, the Caribbean, Afro-Brazil, Afro-Europe — a people scattered by force, and what still connects us.
It is never wrong to go back for what you left behind.
Sankofa is an Akan principle, and it's close to the method behind every piece we make: go back into the record — the archive, the court papers, the primary sources — and bring forward what was buried.
We find the paper. We read the paper. We show the world what the paper says.
Every factual claim has to trace back to a source. Afrikan and Global South scholars come before European ones. We don't sanitise, and we don't sensationalise — the facts carry enough weight on their own.
The people behind Afrikha Roots Network.
Afrikha Roots Network is built by a small, mostly volunteer crew working out of a converted studio space in Nairobi. We work the way Ujima asks of us: collective work, shared responsibility, each person carrying a piece of something bigger than any one of us.
ARN is a project of Utheri Film & TV Productions Limited, trading as Utheri Media Company — a Kenyan company based in Nairobi. Utheri is the Kikuyu word for light. It's not a bad description of what we're trying to do.
The Director titles below are held at that company level — Afrikha Roots Network is a channel, not a separately incorporated entity, so governance sits with the company that owns and produces it.
Karanja founded Utheri Film & TV Productions and sets ARN's editorial direction. He has practiced as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya for over a decade, and brings the same discipline — trace it to the source, get it right — to everything ARN publishes.
Felistus holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Nairobi and serves as Director of HR & Finance, leading ARN's people function and financial governance.
Muniu serves as General Manager and Director of Operations & Strategy at Utheri Film & TV Productions. He's also the voice many viewers already know — he's hosted a number of ARN's published conversations and teaching pieces.
Kelvin, trained in Business Information Technology at Kenyatta University, built ARN's website and now handles its ongoing digital infrastructure.