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…
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Kenya’s Community Reporters
Tagged with: community media, Ghetto Mirror, Kennedy Odede, kenya, Kibera, Mathare, Mathare Radio, media development, nairobi, Shofco, Wairimu Gitau
Posted in op-ed, Photography, Print, Radio
Posted in op-ed, Photography, Print, Radio
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…
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…
Tagged with: Billian Music Family, Billian Okoth, culture, dance, kenya, Mathare, music, nairobi, slum
Posted in Radio
Posted in Radio
Kenya Slum Upgrading Project in Kibera
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
Posted in Radio
Posted in Radio
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…
Tagged with: Aga Khan Foundation, attack, canada, Canadian media, Carleton University, Concordia University, David Meffe, development, Flavie Halais, international fellowship, kenya, montreal, nairobi, shooting, siege, Westgate mall
Posted in Print
Posted in Print
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…
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
Posted in Radio
Posted in Radio
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…
Tagged with: ANC, Cape Town, Jubilee Coalition, kenya, nairobi, president, Raila Odinga, republic of Kenya, South Africa, Uhuru Kenyatta
Posted in op-ed
Posted in op-ed
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…
Tagged with: kenya, kisumu, maasai, maasai market, market, nairobi, presidential election, protests, Raila Odinga, supreme court of kenya, tanzania, Uhuru Kenyatta
Posted in Radio
Posted in Radio
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