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…
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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…
Lola Kenya Screen offers internship–opportunity for the participant to acquire REAL life skills–to talented final year university students who are interested in changing the world for the better through creative entrepreneurship using the media and information discipline. The programme is…
Children’s rapid adoption of the internet and other online technologies, together with the constantly changing media landscape (e.g. more apps and tailored sites, more individualized media use, more mobile internet), pose challenges to researchers concerning the difficult task of adapting…
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 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…