When mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp first emerged in 2009, they looked like a threat to mobile carriers. Everyone from Vodafone to Dutch operator KPN was mentioning them in sales calls. Mobile operators are estimated to have lost US$23bn…
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Children should spend no more than two hours a day on the internet, according to official advice from doctors. The American Academy of Pediatrics say the limit also applies to watching TV and that smartphones and laptops should be kept…
Our 8th annual festival returns with the best possible films for children, youth and family from Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Egypt, Abu Dhabi (UAE), India, South Korea, Bulgaria, Spain, Australia, USA, Poland, Greece, Italy, United Kingdom, France, Singapore, Germany, Brazil, Austria,…
This interview with Lola Kenya Screen founder Ogova Ondego was conducted by Rut Gomez Sobrino of Spain who was a mentor at the 4th annual Lola Kenya Screen festival in 2009; it was initially carried out for the UNESCO e-Platform….
Lola Kenya Screen offers a full-fledged internship in creative entrepreneurship (event management, conception and production of high quality movies, exhibition and promotion of films, critical appreciation of creativity, media literacy). Subject to availability of resources, out-of-school and final year students…
Men in Africa are considered bread winners and protectors of families. But what happens when conditions attached to the cash economy turn these traditional providers into beings who have to depend on women, they that have traditionally depended on men?…
The Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media initiative for children and youth in eastern Africa traces its history to pre-school and Sunday school where its founder used to teach. Ogova Ondego, who founded Lola Kenya Screen in 2005, sought to train…
By Ogova Ondego Published August 13, 2013 Nigeria-based Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) has extended the film submission deadline to its 3rd annual edition of AFRIFF to August 20, 2013 from July 30, 2013. “This decision was taken after extensive…
By Harun Ng’ang’a Kiruku Published August 9, 2013 At around 15 minutes to 6.00 pm on July 29, 2013, I was standing outside the entrance to the auditorium of Goethe-Institut, the venue of the Lola Kenya Screen film forum (LKSff)…
Due to the on-going nationwide strike by public school teachers in Kenya, the Directorate of Lola Kenya Screen is forced to postpone the eighth edition of the annual Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media festival, skill-development programme and marketing platform for…