South African animation house Triggerfish and Kenyan writer Ng’endo Mukii were big winners in the TV/Media category at this year’s Annie Award. But the recognition, for their episode of the animated Disney series, Kizazi Moto, echoes far beyond this one production. By Bonface Orucho When ‘Enkai’, the tenth episode in the 2023 animation series ‘Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire’ emerged as the Best Limited Series Episode in the TV/Media category at the 51st edition of the Annie Award on February 17, the honour marked another milestone for African animation. The episode, written by Ng’endo Mukii, a Kenyan filmmaker, is one of…
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The Conversation East African literature continues to grow and reshape itself in exciting new ways. The world really did take notice of the region when Tanzanian-British author Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. Interest in Gurnah’s work continued last year when he made a homecoming to east Africa. But it is in Tanzania that Gurnah made a proper homecoming in 2023 – through the first ever Kiswahili translation of Paradise, now out as Peponi. I am an interdisciplinary scholar with a research focus that cuts across journalism, creative writing, African literature and postcolonial studies. I’m also a big reader of…
By NLM Writer The recent move to lease out idle public land to private investors mirrors an almost similar trend witnessed during the reign of former President Daniel Moi, where public land ended up in the hands of influential individuals in questionable deals. Under his reign as President, Moi, through the ruling Kanu party, gave out large tracts of land to party loyalists and allies in deals that saw huge swaths of public land becoming personal properties of political brokers and individuals in government. The administration at the time also gave out houses meant for civil servants or public use…
The Conversation The World Trade Organisation launched its Trade Policy Tools for Climate Action during the COP28 conference. International economic law expert Olabisi D. Akinkugbe discusses whether the new Trade Policy Tools benefit Africa. The new tools offer opportunities for countries to mitigate the climate change effect of their trade practices. The tools align with the Paris Agreement, the 2015 legally binding United Nations Treaty on Climate Change. But the global contribution of African states to climate change remains very low: 4%. African states’ contribution to global trade stands at 3%. There are socio-economic inequalities between African states and their western counterparts. The…
The dairy industry plays a significant role in Kenya’s economy, contributing 6-8% of the gross domestic product (GDP). Annually, the industry produces an average of 652.4 million litters of milk, with earnings to producers estimated at Sh23.78 billion ($151 million) from its over 1.8 million smallholder milk-producing households. However due to being predominantly composed of small-scale, often unregulated producers, there is a challenge of food safety, especially from the presence of antibiotic residues in milk, resulting from certain animal husbandry practices. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), antimicrobial resistance has emerged as a global threat to human health. Misuse…
In a move to curb the issuance of fake academic degrees, Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Prof Tahi Mamman, expressed concern about institutions in Kenya, Uganda, and Niger Republic issuing certificates without physical addresses, making them challenging to trace.
Government to go for unused land held by public institutions to boost food production, but questions linger By NLM Writer The government plans to lease out underutilised land held by public institutions to the private sector for large-scale agricultural commercialisation, but questions linger given past experiences with similar programmes. In total, the Land Commercialisation Initiative (LCI), being carried out under Flagship 4 of the Agricultural Sector Transformation and Growth Strategy (ASTGS 2019 – 2029), targets to net 500,000 acres, which will be leased to the private sector for between five and 30 years for food production. In 2013, the newly-inaugurated…
By Mbugua Ng’ang’a @NLM_Magazine Kenya has averted a possible diplomatic tiff with Sudan after a press conference scheduled to be addressed by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo was called off at the last minute on the evening of Wednesday, January 3. Dagalo is the leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Dagalo was in Kenya, where he held talks with President William Ruto at State House Nairobi, just hours before his scheduled conference, which was to be held at the Villa Rosa Kempinski hotel, was called off. He was in Djibouti at the weekend, and held talks with long-serving President…
They may be small in stature but they’re gigantic in performance and spirit and they’re having a massive impact, both worldwide and in Africa, where they are changing the lives of young women. Four former female running greats from Africa are ploughing back what they gained from the sport and investing in the future of African distance running. Stephen Granger, SPNA Derartu Tulu, the first African athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in female competition and now president of Ethiopia’s Athletics Federation; Kenyan marathon super-stars and former world record holders, Tegla Leroupe and Mary Keitany; and former half marathon…