TAX ADVICE FOR CREATIVES: What You Need To Know
Taxes have existed since time immemorial, even before the monetary system came into place, but dealing with them can seem a bit…
LEGAL FOR CREATIVES: What You Need To Know
For many creatives, navigating the business and technical sides of one’s art is challenging, for example: how to earn a reputation from…
Patricia Andago: Big dick politics and how Kenyan news fails women
This post is a collaboration between Odipo Dev and Baraza Media Lab. Take a moment to think about what a typical Kenyan…
The Good Old Days: Drawing from the Best of the Past
Our last session in what has been a five part virtual summit series on the future of the media ended with an…
Journalists Lives Matter: Holding the Line for Truthtellers
The fourth edition of our #FutureorFuneral series explored the risks – and rewards – of speaking truth to power. What does it…
Stronger Together: Opportunities for Media Collaboration in a Crisis
The pandemic has seen the rise of various news sharing and storytelling innovations around the world. In order to remain relevant, newsrooms…
(Dis)trusting the media: An Honest, Intergenerational Dialogue
Our second #FutureorFuneral session explored trust in the Kenyan media, recognising that an inter-generational vantage point is crucial to understand the overt…
Journeying Through Innovative Futures in the Present
Do you ever think about the role of our individual and collective ability to imagine in the way we interact with news…
Lutivini Majanja: You Can Go Free
Lutivini Majanja traces the links between past and present terrors, making it plain that a seemingly ‘common-sense’ association of education with incarceration…
Legal Clinic for Creatives with Liz Lenjo
Baraza Media Lab recently organized a legal clinic that was specifically designed to help creative entrepreneurs learn the intricacies of the Kenyan…
Isaac Otidi Amuke: Journalism, the Essential Non-Essential? (Non-fiction)
On April 22, Johannesburg-based Kenyan photographer, Cedric Nzaka, took to Twitter to share his latest conquest. He had shot the cover for…
j. Siguru Wahutu: Think About Who Gets To Speak
By j. Siguru Wahutu Who are journalists writing their work for? In the early years after independence, the International Press Institute’s Tom…