Keeping Films for Children and Youth in Focus
By Ogova Ondego Published April 19, 2024 Dysfunctional families, peer pressure, mass media and permissiveness are destroying today’s children who are being forced to lose their innocence before their maturity. Avoiding prescription, writers Stephen Arterburn and Jim Burns who work…
By Ogova Ondego Published April 14, 2024 School holidays are not fun for 15-year-old Maria Wanja and 13-year-old Antony Keboge. “My grandmother reads my chats and emails while my uncle eavesdrops on my telephone conversations. I also dislike my dad…
By Iminza Keboge Published July 6, 2023 Some 179,917 students worldwide have received their International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (DP) and Career-related Programme (CP) results from the May 2023 examination session, marking a 3.47% increase in the number of students receiving…
By Daisy Okoti Published May 29, 2023 In the years preceding independence in Kenya, University education was something to behold. The few who succeeded in acquiring University education commanded respect and were hailed as mentors and role models. But, as…
By Iminza Keboge Published April 9, 2022 A programme that gives aspiring photographers the platform on which to showcase their work, gain access to and feedback from experts and attend industry events invites applications from students in Africa, Middle East…
By Iminza Keboge Published March 25, 2022 A producer of children’s educational media has announced the launch of Season 4 of Akili and Me: Words and Sounds with Akili to encourage children and their caregivers to re-discover fun learning through…
By Dominic Dipio Published January 7, 2022 What I am and what we all become is largely a result of our roots. For me, one of the most important qualities I have drawn from these roots is integrity that…
By Ogova Ondego Published January 27, 2021 Though the young people of today, regardless of where they live, not only face pressure unknown to past generations and are also being forced to do so earlier, there is almost no one…
By Iminza Keboge Published May 10, 2020 Rabha Ashry of Egypt has won the 2020 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. Ashry will receive a £3,000 honorarium while her winning selection of poems is now up on africanpoetryprize.org/, the Brunel University…
By Iminza Keboge Published June 3, 2019 Collective Amnesia by Koleka Putuma of South Africa has beaten A Woman’s Body Is a Country by Nigerian Dami Ajayi and Kingdom of Gravity by Ugandan-born Nicholas Makoha to win the 2018 Glenna Luschei…