By Abdi Ali Published August 8, 2018 Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, has become a burial ground for cinema. As you walk along the streets of the city that is also known as City in the Sun, old cinema buildings…
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By Iminza Keboge Published August 3, 2018 A Nairobi-based rising dancehall singer has release a much anticipated dancehall tune he says is set to be his launch pad in changing the fortunes of the slowly diminishing genre. Having been a…
By Irene Gaitirira Published July 29, 2018 Travel and accommodation prices are expected to rise around the world in 2019. A report by Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) that is touted as being the voice of the global business travel…
By Irene Gaitirira Published July 27, 2018 US$100 million of fundraising has been injected into Africa’s bourgeoning financial technology (fintech) and mobile payments sector in 2018. RELATED:Mobile Money Users Pocket US$2.3 Million Quoting a financial institution known as Ecobank, TMT…
By Abdi Ali Published July 23, 2018 An online video streaming platform that rolled out its service in Kenya in 2016 and managed to touch the right chords has received rave reviews for the quality of its series. Many of…
By Abdi Ali Published July 18, 2018 An 18-year-old girl has won the BBC News Somali Young Female Poet 2018 award. Shugri Jama Ibrahim, a form three Student from Bosaaso, has won the award with a poem that explores traditional…
By Khalifa Hemed Published July 3, 2018 The awards ceremony of the Africa Movie Academy Awards shall be held in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on September 22, 2018. The organisers of the Lagos (Nigeria)-based AMAA that was first held in…
By Ogova Ondego Published July 1, 2018 An initiative that seeks to honour the best adaptation of a book to film for children or young adults invites submissions from all over the world till July 20, 2018. Stakeholders are invited…
By Abdi Ali Published June 22, 2018 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is set to launch a weekly TV programme for young people in Africa on June 23, 2018. Aptly titled What’s New? and said to be ‘informative, entertaining and fun…
By Khalifa Hemed Published June 21, 2018 Organisers of Kenya’s national triathlon and duathlon sports series have announced a change in the dates of the events. Team Tri Fit Kenya (TTF) says it will now organise not three but two…