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Christine Mungai
Lead Curator
Christine Mungai is the Curator at Baraza Media Lab, leading the Lab’s activities. She is the creator and executive producer Story Sosa, Baraza Media Lab’s signature multimedia storytelling event, and is the Festival Curator for the Africa Media Festival, Baraza’s annual industry convening. Her work has recently been published in The Africa Report, Adi Magazine, The New Internationalist, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, CNN and Al Jazeera English. She was a 2018 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and is a part-time media trainer with Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Latest from Christine Mungai
Reflections from the Team
As we close out 2024, we asked our team to look back on the year and share what they'd tell their January selves. This year, we’ve brought on new hires, expanded our physical spaces, and began new and ambitious projects.
BARUA YA BARAZA: Podcasting Trends 2024
This week, the Baraza Media Lab hosted a PodConnect event titled Podcasting Trends 2024, featuring Doris Onyango, Production Manager at SemaBox, and Kiplagat J. Kiprop, Product Manager at SemaBox, moderated by Gathoni Ngumba, Community Manager at Afripods. The session brought to light exciting new trends and strategies shaping the future of podcasting in Africa and beyond. Here's a roundup of a few of the key takeaways shared by the stellar panel:
The State of Kenyan Youth
This week’s newsletter is continuing the tradition of inviting members of our community to write From The Curator’s Desk, and for this edition, I’m happy to hand it over to writer Ngito Makena, whose piece below is part of a project telling the stories of Nairobi titled ‘Humans of Nairobi/ Story za Nai’, published by Baraza Media Lab.