Latest Political News in Kenya

Politics in Kenya is what everyone wants to hear about every time they switch on their TV stations, or radio – they want to see latest political news in Kenya or simply Breaking News! Of course with the recent state of Kenyan politics everyone is taking the newspapers, TVs and Radios depending on where you come from, seriously just to have the latest in political news in Kenya. You will be quick to notice that, in many social joints people are speaking politics as they try to break down the current situation dazzlingly from the details they collect from the media houses and channels. On the other hand, politicians will not stop performing their somersaults in government, on the streets and in parliament and this is what many people want to watch, hear and see as media houses stay put to capture.

Cradle of Politics in Kenya

Kenya has come from far, since independence when the late Jomo Kenyatta took the leadership of Kenya and when Moi came to power after Kenyatta’s Death and even when Moi was succeeded by Mwai Kibaki in the year 2002, Kenya has been developing and expanding its political mileage up to what we have now. This is when the desire to get the latest political news matured and media platforms advanced. Many writers and authors came forth to tell his or her fellow members of a community what was happening in politics as media houses led by Voice of Kenya struggled to put things together. A good example was Jomo Kenyatta himself, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and many more who satirized political news in Kenya in their brilliant pieces of work. Now we have big media houses competing for space in and further competing on which media house will air the latest political news in Kenya. For instance, there is the authoritative Daily Nation, The standard, Royal Media Services, Mediamax amid many other unassailable media houses. In fact, the big media houses have opened branches that go down to radio stations that cover the better part of the tribes in Kenya. This is in the name of ensuring that apart from the happenings and news events in Kenya and across the globe, the latest political news in Kenya reaches out to the targeted members of a community in time and dispassionately. And as these media houses air news pragmatically and objectively, there are other media houses that seek to have their news satirized in order to have a third eye of the whole story. For example: The Bulls Eye of NTV, The Truth Meter of Citizen TV and many more. This is spread out to the print media and the online platforms which take different shapes and forms just to keep the viewer on the lime light entertainment wise.

How Caricature Unravels Latest Political News in Kenya

This is no longer news as every media house seeks to consider a humorous approach of presenting political news. This is done in a number of artistic ways with an endless list. Starting from the Ridiculous a group of creative team led by KJ, Nyambane and Tonny Njuguna back in the days. They played a very significant role of unraveling the other side of politicians beginning with the former president Daniel Moi and his colleagues of government –Kamotho, Matiba and many more. Coming latest is the XYZ an artistic show that uses symbolical puppets that are voiced and put on making movements that are imitated from the real politicians – this is worth watching. There is also the Mavulture which is an up-to-the-minute media channel that seeks to unravel the corrupt and deceiving politicians and business people in Kenya via various drawings, graphics, illustrations and figures in public places, on the internet and in social media for the masses to learn, watch, hear and understand the hidden truths. All these are satirical perspectives of the media that seek to obtain a soft spoken process of informing the members of the public of exactly what is happening behind closed doors where they cannot reach. They seek to create an entertaining opinion that at the same time reveals the covered truths about the politicians and the business people in Kenya.

Challenges Encountered

There are a lot of challenges that are encountered by the people behind these caricatures and satirical media that unearth the happenings in Kenya. This includes one major that is the freedom of the media which has been a controversial issue since time in memorial. There are a lot of media houses, journalists and reporters who have been intimidated and threatened if not losing their licenses and reporters being killed in cold blood just to have some crucial information scraped out of airing and thus the common mwananchi is left in the dark without actually the truth in their hands. This is serious and a lot of interventions have been put in place because it is not news to find out that some media houses are coerced not to publish some stories or even to publish by affluent groups in the political circles and business entries. These are moguls who influence and dictate the editorial content of a media houses which is backward and retrogressive. This is why there is much need to embrace activism and the entire need to have transparency and impartiality when airing news.

Mavulture takes the day with its authoritative way, they have taken to the streets to create awareness and foster the need for good governance and utilization of public resources. There are also a number of instances where the respectable people behind this move have been harassed and even arrested in the verge to end this initiative but the spirit still goes on!