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The Daily Nation was started in the year 1958 as a Swahili weekly called Taifa by the Englishman Charles Hayes. It was bought in 1959 by the Aga Khan, and became a daily newspaper, Taifa Leo (Swahili for "Nation Today"), in January 1960. An English-language edition called Daily Nation was published on 3 October 1960, in a process organised by ...
Nation Media Group ( NMG ), formerly East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd, is an East African media group listed based in Kenya and listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange.
The paper changed its name to The Standard in 1977 but the name East African Standard was revived later. It was sold to Kenyan investors in 1995. In 2004 the name was changed back to The Standard. It is the main rival to Kenya's largest newspaper, the Daily Nation.
The EastAfrican is a weekly newspaper published in Kenya since 7 November 1994 by the Nation Media Group, which also publishes Kenya's national Daily Nation. [1] The EastAfrican also circulates in the other countries of the African Great Lakes region, including Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. [2] It contains stories and in-depth analysis from each country in the region, in addition to ...
Hilary Boniface Ng'weno (1938-2021) was a Kenyan historian and journalist. The Harvard -educated scientist was born in Nairobi in 1938, to the late Regina and Morris Onyango. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in nuclear physics, Ng'weno worked as a reporter for the Daily Nation for nine months before his appointment as the newspaper’s first Kenyan editor-in-chief. He resigned in ...
Mass media in Kenya includes more than 91 FM stations, more than 64 free to view TV stations, and an unconfirmed number of print newspapers and magazines. Publications mainly use English as their primary language of communication, with some media houses employing Swahili. Vernacular or community-based languages are commonly used in broadcast media; mostly radio.
The National Construction Authority found that 58% of the buildings in Nairobi were unfit for habitation. At least three people died when a building collapsed in Kenya’s capital Nairobi ...
Taifa Leo is the only Swahili-language newspaper published from Kenya. It was founded in 1958. Taifa Leo means "Nation Today" in Swahili. Taifa Leo is published by the Nation Media Group. From 2012 to February 2018, its content was published on the Swahili website www.swahilihub.com. Under the leadership of renowned award-winning editor ...