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Kenya’s Community Reporters

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Adam Bemma — Leave a comment

NAIROBI, Kenya – I believe in the power of community media to transform communities. In my home country, due to the National Film Board of Canada’s Challenge for Change program from the 1960s to 80s, marginalized Canadians came together to…

Tagged with: community media, Ghetto Mirror, Kennedy Odede, kenya, Kibera, Mathare, Mathare Radio, media development, nairobi, Shofco, Wairimu Gitau
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Kenya Slum Upgrading Project in Kibera

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Adam Bemma — Leave a comment

Featuring Kibera residents Godwin Oyindo, 24, Hilda Olali, 49, and Justus Ongera, 24.

Tagged with: gentrification, housing project, KENSUP, kenya, Kibera, nairobi, Project, settlement, Slum Upgrading, Soweto East, UN Habitat
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Creating a Slum Within a Slum

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Adam Bemma — Leave a comment

NAIROBI, Jul 22 2014 (IPS) – At the eastern edge of Nairobi’s Kibera slum, children gather with large yellow jerry cans to collect water dripping out of an exposed pipe. The high-rise grey and beige Soweto East settlement towers above…

Tagged with: Godwin Oyindo, Hilda Olali, housing, Housing and Urban Development, human rights, Justus Ongera, KENSUP, kenya, Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme, Kibera, Ministry of Land, nairobi, slum, Soweto East, UN Habitat, urbanisation, urbanization
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Kenya: A Case of Media Mentorship in Africa’s Largest Slum

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Adam Bemma — 1 Comment

“The mentoring culture needs to come back to our newsrooms,” said Ernest Sungura, executive director at Tanzania Media Fund, while addressing journalists at the World Press Freedom Day Conference in Arusha May 3. The theme of this year’s Arusha conference…

Tagged with: BBC Media Action, Children's Radio Foundation, Ghana, Godwin Oyindo, human rights, KENSUP, kenya, Kibera, media development, media mentorship, nairobi, press freedom, Rotlinde Achimpota, slum upgrading project, South Africa, tanzania, Tanzania Media Fund, UNESCO, World Press Freedom Day 2014
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The slum series – Voice of Kibera

Posted on September 15, 2013 by Adam Bemma — Leave a comment

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kibera is known as Africa’s largest slum. It’s located in Nairobi, Kenya and home to a new media renaissance. Featuring the voices of Vincent Achuka, editor and journalist at the Ghetto Mirror, Sande Wycliffe, programmer at the…

Tagged with: #RightsMedia, Africa, change, Ghetto Mirror, journalism, kenya, Kibera, media development, Mtani Insight, nairobi, new media, newspaper, online news platform, renaissance, slum series, Voice of Kibera, youth
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