Author: David Indeje

Much more must be done to ensure everyone understands the benefits of using a treated mosquito net to ensure preventable disease, malaria, is a long-gone case. Despite the high birth rate, most people do not buy more than one mosquito net due to cost.  Three years ago, in rural Matulo Village in Webuye District, the situation was so dire as the only persons who use the mosquito net are parents. This is despite the mass media awareness campaigns mounted by various organizations like Population Services International (PSI) which are partnering with media organizations such as West FM in a door-to-door campaign.  PSI’s…

The media construction of reality is not a unilateral process exclusively performed by Television media and political actors that shapes and conditions the citizens. Political agenda and influences the information of public opinion and various peripheral spaces administered by civil society, that seek to influence from the edges, the institutional definition of reality. We constantly compare the media version with our subjective individual reality based on accumulated knowledge, interpersonal interactions and past experiences. Therefore, we are consumers of meanings, chiefly those circulated by media organizations on which a greater or lesser extent we cognitively depend but, at the same time,…

My greatest inspiration always comes from my daddy.  At one time, he said to me, “Personally, it seems like I have failed my family. I look at the many projects that I begun, but it seems the results are not like what I had discerned to be like.” Being of one of his eldest children, among five, I was with my sister. Dad’s businesses were not doing fine. Everyone, Mum, dad, sister and I were all trying to help in the little way possible to bring all things back to course. Yes, I agree some of the problems affecting the…

Mashujaa (Heroes) Day, formerly Kenyatta Day, on October 20. It is going to be the third national day celebrated under our new Constitution, which recognizes only two other national days on the calendar Jamhuri Day and Madaraka Day.Today marks a great milestone to us Kenyans. A day our country is being reborn, a day that inspires by the opportunities that will make each day afford us to wake-up and live another day striving to reach our goals as a nation.Goals that will make us make strides, in our social, political and economic endeavors; Strides that will raise our education standards…

On August 27, 2010, Kenyans celebrated the promulgation of a new constitution, a beacon of hope for political voice, equitable services, and opportunity. Yet, today, these aspirations remain elusive, overshadowed by persistent challenges—corruption, ethnic strife, and impunity—that leaders exploit to maintain power. Kenyans, quick to forget past struggles, often resist learning the lessons history offers. As the adage goes, unlearned lessons return in new forms until mastered. Kenya’s journey from one-party rule to multiparty democracy has been arduous. Yet, when glimmers of progress emerge, petty self-interests and ethnic loyalties stifle structured mobilisation for political and economic transformation. While Kenyans can…

The Late Prof Wangari Maathai (Nobel Laureate) on receiving the UN Africa Prize for Leadership, 1991 she said:“Another value Africans must adopt is love and concern for young people. One of the most devastating experiences is to see youth wasting away because they are unemployed, even after they have completed secondary and tertiary education, or because their health has deteriorated. African governments should give priority to investments in technical education and HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care, and support programs.Without skills, people find themselves locked out of productive, rewarding economic activities, leaving them unable to meet their needs for housing, healthcare and…