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Dear world, Receive my humble salutations. I come bearing good or bad news, depends on how you’re willing to take them. The millennials are kind of fed up with your judgments. We appreciate the generations that came before us: especially, those who fought for our soul food; freedom. We are quite
Read MoreThe glossy black Land Rover Discovery barrels down the highway with a hum towards the city, effortlessly taking on the seemingly endless stretch of asphalt. It's been a long journey but it's about to come to an end. Jalang'o, born Phelix Odiwuor, sits comfortably in the driver's seat, one hand
Read MoreI’ve read stories, watched movies and sat at the feet of historians. The tales of how our forefathers fought our independence as a continent reflect the true nature of Africans. Brave. Brawn. Brains. Yet after many years of our purported independence, nay, neocolonialism, we have not been able to open our borders
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 MoreAny better description of the post-independence Kenya would only come close to Richard Ntiru’s description of the contemporary society in his classical poem, Introduction, that ‘Society is a market stall/And men goods on display/ Where the label is more important than the labelled/ And the price more fascinating than value’.
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 MoreThere is massive confusion and outcry among citizens in Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi after the local government banned the operation of ‘matatus’ in the central business district. The ban effected on Monday, the third, 2018 by the Nairobi County Council comes a month barely after the transport ministry in the
Read MoreAlthough right time is not synonymous to perfect time, it has undoubtedly been proven that perfect things come at the right time. This truth has been echoed through all ages in history of mankind, and can hardly be overwritten. Even in the Good Book- the most widely read and perhaps the
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
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