Kenya Takes Historic Step To Protect Women in Media
from left to right: Peninah Karibe, Sophie Ikenye and Anne Ngugi.
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Kenya has become the second country in Africa to launch the Unstereotype Alliance that seeks to broaden the representation of women, and men, in advertising and media, in an effort to curb negative social norms.
The Kenya National Chapter seeks to increase empowered women represented in the media to have impactful influences on both public and private environments.
While the media has for a while highlighted the widening gender imbalance, it has also been guilty of misrepresenting women in terms of the distribution of leadership roles and allocation of space for media coverage.
Kenyans venture out
But by December 2020, with the fear of succumbing to the deadly virus receding and being replaced by that of dying from hunger, Kenyans thought it was time to venture out.
A poll that was done in August 2020 by Twaweza, a non-governmental organisation, found that seven in 10 Kenyans named negative business and economic impacts when asked about the impact of Covid-19, compared to just a quarter who said they feared contracting the virus itself.
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This, coupled with friends and families growing fonder of each other after a long period of separation, saw Kenyans revert to the earlier described Aristotelian disposition of being social.
Kenyans venture out
But by December 2020, with the fear of succumbing to the deadly virus receding and being replaced by that of dying from hunger, Kenyans thought it was time to venture out.
A poll that was done in August 2020 by Twaweza, a non-governmental organisation, found that seven in 10 Kenyans named negative business and economic impacts when asked about the impact of Covid-19, compared to just a quarter who said they feared contracting the virus itself.
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This, coupled with friends and families growing fonder of each other after a long period of separation, saw Kenyans revert to the earlier described Aristotelian disposition of being social.
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Three stocks making NSE investors wealthy
Thursday February 18 2021
By CHARLES MWANIKI
Summary
The three stocks recorded a combined gain of Sh183.86 billion since January 1, representing 92.3 percent of the 199.12 billion appreciation of all shares at the NSE.
The companies’ outsized influence on key market indicators has made it difficult for investors to measure the true performance of the bourse.
From the outside, the NSE looks to be on bull run and fully recovered from the effects Covid-19 pandemic, as investors bank on a rollout of coronavirus vaccines to keep the global economic recovery on track.
Safaricom #ticker:SCOM, BAT Kenya #ticker:BAT and East Africa Breweries Limited #ticker:EABL (EABL) accounted for 92 percent of the increase in investor wealth at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) since the start of the year, exposing the distortion of the bourse’s performance by the blue chip stocks.