Posted by Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, YouTube (Cross-posted from The YouTube Blog ) channel to broadcast news from around Kenya. Though Kenya's third-world economy affords less than 1% of its citizens broadband Internet access, NTV Kenya's YouTube presence has become a critical way for the Kenyan diaspora to connect with what's happening back home. The channel already has almost 3,000 subscribers and is one of the top 100 channels viewed in the last month on YouTube. The channel documents the death and violence, but it also broadcasts the efforts of the international community to rescue the nation from internal strife, as demonstrated by this playlist:channel that documents the election efforts in Nairobi and beyond. This video of an election line in Starehe shows just how thirsty Kenyans were on December 27, 2007, to cast their votes:
Thanks for the link, Steve. Only just saw it :{
ReplyDeleteThat was a crazy line! I can't imagine waiting for so long simply to cast my ballot in the US. Kenya had a strong democracy that was the envy of the world, not only Africa.
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