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My lady friends had always complained about my rare smile. Of course, very few, dared (approach me and) talk about it. And so, when I posted on my status a day after the first Media Conference Mobile Journalism conducted in July 2018, I was congratulated you would think I had
Read MoreMobile Journalism Africa welcomes you to the year 2019. Mobile devices are revolutionizing storytelling. Journalists and trained communication experts are using them to tell stories from different locations at different times altogether. These devices, we choose to call Pocket Studios,are the new way of doing stories. For modern-day storytellers like us it is a
Read MoreThere is a great innovation that is currently revolutionizing agribusiness with an aim of helping achieve food security. Just like every other institution is now speaking of aligning its activities to Jubilee Government's Big Four Agenda one of which is food security, IcedTube is (in an additional bid to achieve
Read MoreAgri-journalism is becoming the next great thing in agribusiness. That you can use your smartphone, what we at Mobile Journalism Africa call 'pocket studios', to market yourself, and learn how to enrich your agribusiness is just great. Imagine using your own phone to shoot a video of yourself in the
Read MoreAt the heart of economic development lies food security and technology, innovation and creativity. However, how can one even begin to think of food security without acknowledging the need to empower farmers which undoubtedly translates to increased productivity? To Jackson Kiptanui, the CEO of Icedtube, food security and, technology and
Read MoreRecently I called on my friend-in-pen Muchira Gachenge and in our conversation, we questioned ourselves the plight of (us) budding writers in a state like Kenya. What really awaits budding writers? What is (in) their future? Are they to continue in their total orphaned state? Or will established writers,
Read MoreKoigi wa Wamwere, in an interview that made part of the documentary which Ketebul Music compiled and included in their findings of a study on protest music in Kenya which they titled Retracing Kenya’s Songs of Protest-Music as a Force for Change in Kenya, 1963-2013, remarked that ”when a struggle
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