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The work of the Kenya News Agency as a national news gathering operation began decades earlier with the Kenya Information Service (KIS) formed in 1939 to disseminate information on World War II. [3] In 1945, after the war, the service changed its name to the African Information Service (AIS) and it served as an information unit mainly for the ...
Kelvin Kiptum Cheruiyot (2 December 1999 – 11 February 2024) was a Kenyan long-distance runner who currently holds the marathon world record.As of 2024, he ran three of the seven fastest marathons in history [5] and was ranked first among the world's men's marathon runners.
Tony Adam Mochama (born 9 May 1975) is a Kenyan poet, writer, author and a senior journalist [1] at The Nation Media Group. [2] Mochama is a three-time winner of the Burt Awards [3] for African Young Adult Literature and he is also a recipient of the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship.
The Daily Star is a tabloid newspaper published from Monday to Saturday in the United Kingdom since 1978. In 2002, a sister Sunday edition, Daily Star Sunday was launched with a separate staff. In 2009, the Daily Star published its 10,000th issue. Jon Clark is the editor-in-chief of the paper, while Andrew Gilpin is editor of the web version.
She was shortlisted for the position, and attended her public interview on 14 April 2021. Koome is a renowned human rights and gender advocate. She participated in the campaign for the repeal of section 2A of the Kenyan constitution which converted Kenya into a Multi-party state. This essential repeal introduced term limits on the Presidency.
The Star newspaper appeared for the first time in Johannesburg as The Eastern Star. It was founded in Grahamstown under that title on 6 January 1871 (as a resurrection of the previous Great Eastern paper), and was moved to the Witwatersrand sixteen years later by its owners, brothers Thomas and George Sheffield.
Agnes Jebet Tirop (23 October 1995 – 13 October 2021) was a Kenyan professional long-distance runner.She won bronze medals in the 10,000 metres at the 2017 and 2019 World Athletics Championships.
The music of Kenya is very diverse, with multiple types of folk music based on the variety over 50 regional languages. [1]Zanzibaran taarab music has also become popular, as has hip hop, reggae music, soul, soukous, zouk, rock and roll, funk and Europop.