Adam Bemma

  • Kenya’s Community Reporters

    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 speak truth to power through participatory filmmaking. This tradition now continues in documentary film and…

    Adam Bemma

  • Mathare Radio provides local news relevant to Nairobi slums

    In 2007, Wairimu Gitau dreamed of starting a community radio station broadcasting in Sheng for residents of Nairobi, Kenya’s Mathare slum. Seven years later and her dream is closer to becoming a reality as she builds ties in the community and hopes to soon receive funding. Building its presence online, Mathare Radio is now a household…

    Adam Bemma

  • Mathare music centre gives voice to Kenyan youth living in slum

    Billian Okoth runs Billian Music Family, a youth centre in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya. Through music and dance, Billian empowers youth to make change in their community, and in the process giving them a chance to dream of a brighter future. Featuring Billian Okoth, Stephen Onyango (17), Faith Awour (13) and Lewinsky Wanjiku (14).

    Adam Bemma

  • Kenya Slum Upgrading Project in Kibera

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

    Adam Bemma

  • Creating a Slum Within a Slum

    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 them. A girl lifts the can on top of her head and returns to her…

    Adam Bemma

  • Kenya: A Case of Media Mentorship in Africa’s Largest Slum

    “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 was Media Freedom for Good Governance and Development. I would argue mentorship needs to be taken…

    Adam Bemma

  • Catching a break in Nairobi: How two Canadian freelancers covered the Westgate mall shooting

    Two recent Canadian journalism graduates, dreaming of careers as international journalists, caught the break of a lifetime landing a fellowship with the Aga Khan Foundation Canada. Wanting to combine her passion for journalism and travel, French journalist Flavie Halais applied for, and was awarded, the international fellowship. “I dreamed of working abroad as a journalist…

    Adam Bemma

  • The slum series – Voice of Kibera

    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 online news platform, Voice of Kibera, and Douglas Namale, founder and editor of Mtani Insight…

    Adam Bemma

  • Uhuru means freedom – The long road from Cape Town to Nairobi

    In the KiSwahili language ‘uhuru’ means freedom. In Kenya, a man named Uhuru was recently elected president of the republic. Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn into office on Apr.9, 2013. He brings with him serious baggage after being accused of crimes against humanity for his alleged role in post-election violence in 2007 along with his running…

    Adam Bemma

  • Rights Radio Report #7: Maasai market man

    Adrian Anyona Oigara runs his family’s business at Maasai Market in Nairobi, Kenya. This 26-year-old sells his art work, which is made of stone from his home village. During the 2007-08 election violence, business stopped at the market, which takes place every weekend in front of the Supreme Court of Kenya. Since this year’s election…

    Adam Bemma
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