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Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon

Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon

Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon is a writer and PhD student in History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research is on race, Blackness, and African a... nd African American experiences in the Soviet Union and German Democratic Republic.

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Russian hypocrisy and the death of a Zambian student in Ukraine

Lemekhani Nyirenda’s life and death expose the fallacy of Russian anti-imperialist rhetoric on Africa.

Opinion by Kimberly St. Julian-VarnonKimberly St. Julian-Varnon

Published On 3 Jan 20233 Jan 2023

Florence Nyirenda, mother of Lemekhani Nyireda, is comforted by family members at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka, Zambia, Sunday, Dec. 11 2022. The body of a 23-year-old Zambian student who died while fighting for the Russian army in the war in Ukraine has been returned home. The body of Lemekani Nyirenda who was studying nuclear engineering in Russia before joining the military arrived at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka on Sunday. (AP Photo/Salim Dawood)

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