A-EXIM set for Kenya in June 2012
A-EXIM, a trade fair focusing exclusively on the export and import industry will take place at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, Kenya, from 15-18 June 2012. The trade fair reflects the global market in every sector - from ICT to infrastructure, agribusiness, transport... read more 1 Feb 2012
New communications manager at AccessKenya
AccessKenya Group, a corporate data and infrastructure provider in Kenya, has appointed Kevin Keya as the new group communications manager following the departure of Nancy Imunde a few months ago. Keya who brings over five years experience in media and public relations joined AccessKenya after... read more 12 Sep 2011
Looking for African women leaders
The Kuwa Ajabu Foundation ("be extraordinary") is a non-profit organisation which empowers and builds sustainable capacity in the form of job creation for young, unemployed people across Africa. Affiliate partners include the UN, Women In Finance, Menprow and the fully black-owned Blue Rain... read more 8 Apr 2011
New journalism, communications program offered in Kenya
The Presbyterian University of East Africa School of Communications Studies and The Centre for Art and Media Entrepreneurship in Africa (CAMERAFRICA) in Kenya have partnered to offer an Executive Diploma in Journalism and Communications Program starting March 2011. The curriculum is designed with... read more 2 Mar 2011
Kenyan agency receives international award
click to enlargeKenyan marketing and public relations agency, Exclamation Marketing, received the International Star Award for Leadership in Quality and Excellence at a ceremony in Salons, Concorde of the Palais des Congres of Paris on 21 April 2008. The company received the award in the gold... read more 7 May 2008
Journalists in exile
Over the past six years, the Committee to Protect Journalists has documented 243 cases of journalists who have been forced to flee their home country to avoid harassment and imprisonment. On average, three journalists a month make this escape, with less than 15% of them ever seeing home again.... read more 20 Jun 2007
Kenyan farmers connect to better prices
Africa's small farmers often fall victim to local traders who dictate prices below market rates. But in rural Kenya farmers now have technology in hand that cuts out the middleman. Gretchen Wilson reports 25 Apr 2007
Standard Chartered sending SA team to Greatest Race on Earth
International bank Standard Chartered South Africa recently announced its sponsorship of a South African women's team to compete in the third Standard Chartered Greatest Race on Earth 2006/7, a four-leg relay marathon contested over a period of five months in Nairobi, Singapore, Mumbai and Hong... read more 13 Oct 2006
R1 million giveaway marks end of Africa tour
Metro FM celebrated its twentieth birthday last week by giving R1 million to lucky listener Neelen Jeffries from Eesterus in the east of Pretoria at Maropeng, The Cradle of Humankind. The party brought to a close the station's "I Am An African" tour, in which it broadcast from 11 countries in 20... read more 27 Sep 2006
24/7 Pan African TV channel coming soon
Journalism.co.za reports that a proposed 24-hour Pan African television channel, to be known as A-24, could be set up by next year. Kenyan-based company Camerapix says it will follow the format of pan-Arabic television channel, Al-Jazeera, and is intended to counter Western negative publicity of... read more 17 Aug 2006
Instant Grass takes root in Russia
Instant Grass, the youth trendspotting agency, has set up shop in Moscow in its first step to providing youth insights and strategies to marketers operating in key developing markets across the globe. The network of trendspotters or 'grasses' in Russia will initially focus on Moscow, St Petersburg... read more 17 Nov 2005
Joe Louw laid to rest
Joe Louw, former SABC producer and veteran journalist, was buried in Johannesburg this weekend after succumbing to colonic cancer last Friday. He was famous for photographing the assassination of Martin Luther King junior in 1968. Louw, who worked for many of South Africa's media houses, was... read more 11 Jul 2004
7th International Design Indaba Early Bird Offer
Book your three-day Design Indaba pass before 16 January 2004 and you will receive 10% off the standard price of R3 000 with the Early Bird Special. The 7th International Design Indaba will be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on 25 - 27 February 2004.
It's a unique... read more 11 Jan 2004
Kenyan wins Natali Prize
Investigative journalist Ken Opala of Kenya has been awarded the gold medal in the 2003 Natali Prize, one of the world's leading journalistic awards. Opala, who has received acclaim for his reporting on death row convicts, was also the winner of the regional prize for Africa. 31 Oct 2003
South African Cannes entries
There is a total of 531 South African entries to this year's Cannes Lions Festival: 133 – Film; 316 – Print & Outdoor; 29 – Cyber; 35 – Media; Direct Marketing – 18. This year's entries are 5% below that of 2002. Other African entries include 14 from Kenya and 4 from Mozambique. 16 Jun 2003
Kenya decrees free HIV/Aids ads
The government of Kenya has made it mandatory for broadcasting stations to set aside a percentage of their airtime for free advertisements to create public awareness and behaviour change in the war on HIV/Aids. 14 Apr 2003
Supa Strikas adds Kenyan home team advantage
The popular soccer comic, Supa Strikas has launched in Kenya this weekend, bringing the total circulation to an impressive 1,1 million copies per month. Supa Strikas will be carried by the Saturday Nation newspaper, part of the Nation Media Group, giving the product a circulation in excess of 176... read more 25 Feb 2003
Kenyan Agency Looking For SA Agency Affiliation
The managing director of independant Kenyan agency Ingenue will be in SA between the months of June and July to find an agency to affiliate with. Several SA companies are opening branches in the East Africa region including software, telecommunications, beverage and fast food companies to name a... read more 13 May 2002
AU appoints official publisher
The African Union (formerly the Organisation of African Unity) has appointed Millenium Communications, a consortium of South African and Kenyan business interests, as their official publisher. The company therefore also has the exclusive right to publish the African Union Business Directory, a... read more 13 Mar 2002