Category: Mediascape

Few people know Alfred Opere. We did not know him too, until we started thinking about how the media has been reporting on the recent…

Journalists are not made of steel. They are human beings. Like Shakespeare’s Jews in The Merchants of Venice would say: when you prick them, they…

Let’s tell you about the colonial journalist. To him or her, Kenya is the capital city of Nairobi and all Kenyans are primitive fellows who…

We went listening to the ‘ground’ and what it feels about Kenya’s media and heard a lot of cursing directed at one of Kenya’s most…

School’s out, and gangs of fellows high on testosterone and oestrogen are home with a vengeance. These are hard times – guys eat like famished…

There is one golden rule for delivering a eulogy: Keep it as brief as possible, bearing in mind that you are not the only person…

First a declaration: That we, the authors of Mediascape, can write, and we condemn in the strongest terms possible anybody who insinuates anything on the…

There is something deeply maternal about her holiness Bishop Rev Dr Margaret Wanjiru, hereinafter referred to as Maggie or Mother Maggie. Well, Maggie has a…

In the media business we trust chameleons and snakes more than our politicians. Because scepticism is the hallmark of good journalism. So, when there is…

No one dies a natural death in Kenya. No one. They are poisoned, bewitched, or murdered, or all the three. And death in Kenya’s media…