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Focus on Africa (TV programme) Awards. 2017 - 100 Most Influential Young Africans. 2017 - 100 Most Influential Young Kenyans. Sophie Ikenye is a BBC news presenter from Kenya. [1] She is a main presenter for Focus on Africa (TV programme) on BBC World News. She worked in the broadcasting industry in Kenya for 12 years before joining the BBC.
The corporation was launched as a radio service in 1928 when Kenya was a British colony, making it the first radio station in Kenya. The radio station was launched as the East African Broadcasting Corporation (EABC) which relayed BBC News. In 1964, when Kenya became independent, and the corporation's name was changed to Voice of Kenya.
Nationality. Kenyan. Victoria Rubadiri (born 28 January 1987) is a Kenyan journalist and television anchor with CNN International in Kenya. [1][2] In 2020, she won the 2020 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. [3][4][5] Rubadiri earned a bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism in 2009 from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [6]
Kenyan journalist Rukia Bulle has won the 2024 BBC News Komla Dumor Award. The 26-year-old, who is the ninth recipient of the award and works for Kenya’s Nation Media Group, specialises in human ...
Basillioh Rukanga - BBC News, Nairobi. August 15, 2024 at 7:24 AM. Authorities in the Kenyan city of Eldoret have removed the statues of three athletes after they were widely ridiculed and ...
The pan-continental wave of African nationalism attracts Cold War interests. For Kenya, this peaks between 1963 and 1969 when a proxy cold war plays out in local politics. [86][68][87][88] 1961. 21 August. Jomo Kenyatta is released [68] 1961. September. Bildad Kaggia is released from prison.
Goldenberg scandal. The Goldenberg scandal was a political scandal where the Kenyan government was found to have subsidised exports of gold far beyond standard arrangements during the 1990s, by paying the company Goldenberg International 35% more (in Kenyan shillings) than their foreign currency earnings. Although it notionally appears that the ...