Archive for April 2018

Our young women’s satellite launch programme is back in business. Thanks to new funding the launch pad for the satellite launch is now scheduled for October this year. The young women from the Cape Flats are currently building the payload for the satellite and will be conducting a series of science experiments as the satellite…

“Founding Women” by Eunice Baguma Ball is an inspiring read featuring twenty African women entrepreneurs who have fulfilled their dreams of running their own businesses. The book relates their stories and how they dealt with the setbacks and challenges they had to overcome to achieve success. It is stuffed full of lessons and encouragement for…

The University of Central Lancashire and its African partner universities are presenting a Journalism Symposium for media leaders and student journalists in Nairobi on June 27th. Themes will include Digital Journalism, story-telling and how we can collectively rewrite the African editorial narrative and learn from each other to create a new journalism for a new…

When I visited Kalobeyei on the edge of Kakuma refugee camp last month hopes were high that it would eventually grow into a new city in its own right with a self-reliant community bringing jobs and trade to this impoverished corner of Turkana West county in Kenya. Kalobeyei is already home to 36,000 people who’ve…

Student journalists at the Top Story event were given a masterclass the great Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Arameyaw Anas. Anas appeared undercover with his face disguised under a golden beaded veil. He has an amazing track record of exposing corruption by judges and fake doctors among other wrongdoers. He films undercover and then presents the…

Three students from Mount Kenya University have won a prize to visit BBC Headquarters in London after beating off stiff competition from twenty-two other university journalism schools in TV’s Top Story show. The three had braved weeks of various journalism challenges which culminated in a Grand Final at the Museum of Nariobi. Their winning story…