Thursday
15th august, 2013 saw something go down in the history of our blog
that was a blessing to us. I have written on this platform; so many times that,
we are more than a blessed and a favored blog!
A
couple of days before this day, I received an email from a friend; Ms Bettina
Ng’weno; whose story we have featured in this blog (http://bukhungubukhanga.blogspot.com/2013/08/city-park-peoples-park-saved-through.html).
She
asked me to help her her colleague professor who wa flying into the country;
doing a research on media and arts in Africa The email read:
Hi Vincent,
I have a visitor in town who would love to meet you. She is an academic,
originally from Nigeria and is a colleague of mine at the University of
California, Davis in the USA. She studies popular culture, literature, youth
and media and the arts in Africa and is visiting for 2 weeks. She is super
interested in your blogazine and the whole blog, twitter scene here in Kenya.
Would you have time to meet up? Perhaps we could catch lunch or tea or
something? Let me know if you have time this week
Thanks
Bettina
It
was a great honor then to meet professor Moradewun Adejunmobi; all the way from
the University of California Davis; where she heads African American and Afrcan
studies.
We
met at PAWA254; which was appropriate and convenient since they mentor creative
on fusing art and media. We then did a research tour of Nairobi’s Silicon
Valley- The I-Hub centre on Ngong Road.
The
talks did shed light that; in many ways, technology is making us better, faster
and stronger.
We
have more information; more communication ; more art being produced-reaching-an
ever-increasing number of people.
A
big part of the challenge for media today is to harness and interpret the
floods of information washing in on our shores, picking what's most relevant for
the reader; audience and listener.
When
the whole world is trying to tell you something at the same time, you need
someone to help you find te significant voices, or everything becomes noise.
In
this world of arts and culture, this is more relevant than ever. Every writer has an a outlet on his/ her blog- the audience of millions just being only a
mouse- click away.
To
date; ‘gatekeepers’ of “quality” are more relevant than ever. Traditional media
needs to rise to this challenge, focusing on quality content that has the power
to enhance the lives of its readers. As a blog, we strive to be one of those
gatekeepers; to the best of our abilities, and each day keep shining the
spotlight on the best and brightest of what Nairobi has to offer.
And
, while the world keeps moving faster, we treasure the moments where you can
lose yourself with your mouse clicks in the blog pages.
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