A South African pay TV broadcaster has announced that it will launch its own Film Academy at the beginning of 2015. M-Net says the initiative will be part of its corporate social investment initiatives aimed at developing the film and…
Subscription numbers for a South Africa-based pay-television businesses have grown by 1.3 million to reach more than eight million homes across 50 countries in Africa. Naspers’ pay-TV services take the form of MultiChoice’s satellite offering DStv and digital terrestrial television…
The winners of the third annual Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) Awards, a global online competition that invites students aged 13-19 years to use digital media to express their vision for driving positive change in their communities, have been unveiled. A…
A critic is to art what a doctor is to health and a teacher to education. A critic is a flash light, mirror, historian, archivist, scribe, guide, prophet and gate-keeper in whose absence creativity withers and dies. But first things…
Let’s say you want to make members of the public of your country aware of an important national cause. Let’s say you want them to not only take a stand on that issue but to also influence others to do…
Sensationalist media coverage of online risks such as cyberbullying or the dangers of meeting an online ‘friend’ offline may be acting as a barrier to effectively educating children on e-safety. A report from the EU Kids Online project based at…
Video is the most engaging form of media. As a business, this is something that you need to take advantage of. You can have your own corporate video made up by a professional video production company. This is a great…
We mark our 10th year of equipping children and youth with practical skills in creative and cultural entrepreneurship in 2014. This programme, incepted in March 2005, was initially offered under ArtMatters.Info (under whose umbrella Lola Kenya Screen was founded and…
By Wairimu Wanjage, Communication & Journalism Intern I was attached to the Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media festival, skills-development programme and marketing platform for children and youth in eastern Africa from January 13 to April 11, 2014. As a Communication…
Africa’s 200 million youth could be a source of instability unless the continent addresses pressing issues affecting its youngsters. Experts have identified underemployment and unemployment as catalysts for youth restiveness in the continent. The World Bank estimates that youth account…