One of the momentous innovations of this millennium is the rise of smartphones and an eruption of social media. With a smartphone, everyone suddenly became a ‘journalist’ arresting events in photos and videos, and posting them in their ‘media house’- social media hence citizen journalism. This snatched mainstream media the monopoly to break news. Others
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Over the past couple of weeks, I have encountered experiences that have left me distressed in regard to the state of mental health many of our compatriots, especially women, are nursing. It is depressing (pun intended) that many women who appear happy and comfortable in their families (read marriage) are carrying heavy mental baggage. Many
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Recently, a vernacular TV station ran a report on Kenyan women domestic workers, with interviews of some who had worked in the Gulf and others who were preparing to leave for Saudi Arabia. The stories attracted tens of responses, apparently from the domestic workers in a number of those countries, among them Lebanon, Qatar, Bahrain
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The African Union was not only the key sponsor of the third African Women in the Media conference (AWiM19), the largest gathering of its kind, which was recently held in Nairobi and brought together some of the top women journalists in Africa, but also undertook to fund a category of stories on critical issues affecting
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Father’s Day was celebrated on June 16, same as the Day of the African Child. I belatedly take the opportunity to especially celebrate fathers who take their parenting responsibilities and roles as they should. And they are many. HEARTBREAKING They take their paternity leave seriously. They take care of their babies, they change diapers, wash
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