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Whitehead Comm has collaborated with Boston University on topic modelling Covid-19 news media

9/8/2020

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Over the past few months, Whitehead Communications has been testing out several new communications research techniques to see the bigger picture when it comes to public opinion. One of these was employing a novel machine learning technique called LDA Topic Modelling to analyse how the Ugandan online media has been covering Covid-19, which was led by our research teammate Joyce Yanru Jiang. We decided to use tailored Python code to scrape Ugandan news media websites collecting thousands of articles including the keywords "covid" or "corona" and then run them through a LDA Topic Modelling algorithm, testing out different parameters until we were able to confidently identify a range of sub-topics included in the Ugandan media's stories related to the coronavirus pandemic.


In the course of our research, we learned that there is a group at Boston University's Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering that is applying a similar technique to analyse Covid-19 news in other countries, so we got in touch and had a couple Zoom meetings, as one does in 2020. Their code and sourcing methods were a little different than ours, but we decided to collaborate by updating our dataset and processing it through their method.

Our new Topic Model in collaboration with the team at Boston University (BU) can be found at this link.

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We're grateful to Dr. Lei Guo and the team at Boston University for their guidance and their very cool racing bar graph (in the link above) that shows how news topics changed over time.

For those who would appreciate more detailed notes on methodology: the differences between our model (which I'll call the Whitehead-Jiang model) in our earlier topic modelling report and the BU model are as follows.

1. We included additional TV and radio news from the web pages of NTV, UBC and KFM in our BU model, which resulted in a larger dataset of 14,947 news articles.

2. We applied BU's model to our dataset, which was based on a Mallet NLP tool kit, though we modified it slightly for the Ugandan context by adding stop words and paired words to improve accuracy.

3. The Whitehead-Jiang model processed the full text of articles, but the BU model only used headlines and lead paragraphs, so for the sake of consistency, we only used this shorter form dataset in our application of the BU model.

4. The BU model was run on each week of data separately, unlike the Whitehead-Jiang model, which processed all data from start to finish together.

5. We identified topics in our BU model by applying BU's recommended topics as used in other countries, and we adjusted them where necessary to the Ugandan context. This process was verified by our Ugandan team Owilla Mercy and Norman Angel.

6. Note that our dataset from Uganda was the only country included in BU's research that offered full text of articles because we scraped them manually instead of using a news database. This has made it possible for our data to be used in a second BU project analysing news framing. We also found that full text is preferable for checking the relevancy of the data thereby training better models.

This has been a great learning experience for us and we look forward to collaborating more with Boston University and other researchers around the world, as well as applying this technique to other projects in the future!

For more information on this or to enquire about working together, please contact me Anne Whitehead at anne@whiteheadcommunications.com


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Telemedicine market survey in the field

9/8/2020

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LDA Topic Modelling of Covid-19 media coverage in Uganda

8/26/2020

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By Joyce Yanru Jiang & Anne Whitehead  

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Uganda – like the rest of the world – has experienced a large volume of news coverage about the Covid-19 pandemic. Whitehead Communications used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to analyse the dominant topics that emerged within Covid-19 coverage by online news websites in Uganda. We gathered more than 13,000 news articles that included the terms “covid” or “corona” from 13 English language news websites. This analysis included the websites of Uganda’s major print publications Daily Monitor, New Vision, and Red Pepper as well as major online-only Ugandan media houses Chimp Reports, Nile Post, PML Daily, Observer and The Independent (the last two of which became online-only just recently during the pandemic lockdown), and other online-only news publishers including Softpower, The Tower Post, Eagle News, Trumpet News and The Brink News.

This was exploratory and experimental research to find out which topics stood out in Ugandan media coverage of Covid-19 according to a machine learning method called LDA Topic Modelling, which employs a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique. 
This methodology alone cannot be considered comprehensive or conclusive, but it offers an initial indication and useful insights into how the subject was covered in the Ugandan press.

​Figure 1 below shows of the volume of articles that we collected from each news website. This only represents the online written news media landscape in Uganda, but presents us with an initial sample for further analysis.


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Figure 1 - Total # of articles including "covid" or "corona" by media house
OUR PURPOSE 

This research aims to explore how Covid-19 has been covered by Ugandan online news websites within the first six months of 2020 using machine learning. We identified top news sites in Uganda that publish in English and applied an LDA Topic Modelling computational technique to discover which topics are being covered related to the coronavirus pandemic. Our research is intended to deliver insights to those who have a special interest in Uganda’s media industry, or the country’s experience with Covid-19, or those interested in the application of machine learning to media and communications research. This is part of a wider research project by Whitehead Communications exploring the application of multiple new research methods to see the bigger picture, draw correlations and build stronger research-based foundations on which to develop communications strategy. 


OVERVIEW OF COVID-19 MEDIA COVERAGE IN UGANDA 

The weekly number of articles produced by Ugandan online media increased dramatically in mid-March of 2020, as the first Ugandan case was declared on the 21st of March2 and the country went into lockdown in the same week3. Covid-19 related coverage by volume of online articles reached its height in April of 2020, then began to decline. This indicates that media interest in the disease and its impact peaked during the period when lockdown was strictest and cases were just beginning to mount, but before the first Covid-19 death was announced in Uganda on the 23rd of July, 20204. We removed from our dataset any stories republished from foreign media outlets in order to focus only on news produced in Uganda.
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According to our dataset, the Daily Monitor published the largest volume of Covid-19 related articles online in April, averaging 150 per week, followed by The Independent (~141/week), then PML Daily (~137/week), Chimp Reports (~114/week), Nile Post (~104/week) and New Vision (~68/week). The volume of articles began to drop again in May. You can see this trend in Figure 2 below. 

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Figure 2 - Weekly volume of articles by media house
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TOPIC ANALYSIS 

Our analysis identified 16 topics that emerged in Ugandan online news media coverage of Covid-19,
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1. Cases & testing
2. Healthcare
3. Domestic outbreak (and government enforcement)
4. Parliament budgeting
5. Travel restrictions
6. Global outbreak and international response
7. Contributions to Covid-19 budget
8. Economy & finance
9. Education
10. Courts & justice
11. Sports
12. Culture & religion
13. Electoral politics
14. Police action
15. Editorials & personal stories
16. Presidential directives


These topics were identified through an unsupervised algorithm, which we ran several times using different parameters until we found the most optimal result. We checked the articles it grouped together to identify what the topics were. Some topics were straightforward, as the articles shared common themes, such as # 9 Education and # 11 Sports. Others were made up of mixed subtopics under one major topic, such as # 3, which gathered together stories about the domestic outbreak and how the government was responding. We also chose to combine four automatically generated topics into two, since their topics were very similar: stories about cases and testing were combined into topic # 1, and editorials and personal stories were combined into topic # 15. The algorithm clustered together groups of stories that differed, but shared a common thread, such as those mentioning the courts system (#10), or those related to different types of restrictions on transport and travel (#5).

More details about our methodology, along with a further examination of a few key topics related to Covid-19 and how they manifested in Ugandan news coverage are shared in the full report below. 


Download the full report here.

If you wish to collaborate with us on further research, please email anne@whiteheadcommunications.com
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Public Opinion on the Impact of Covid-19 in Uganda: Survey Report

7/20/2020

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A survey conducted by Whitehead Communications in July 2020.

Uganda registered its first case of Covid-19 on March 21, 2020, and instated lockdown measures in the same month. These developments were accompanied by a series of Presidential addresses and a significant increase in media coverage about the pandemic. The following months witnessed changes in public opinion, behaviour and socio-economic conditions in Uganda.

This survey delivers data on both public opinion and self-reported behaviour concerning key issues related to the impact of Covid-19 in Uganda. Whitehead Communications gathered 1,353 responses – or 1,182 after data cleaning – between the 6th and 15th of July, 2020, using a mixed methodology collecting results from a purposive sample both online and through phone calls. This report is intended to serve as a resource to decision-makers and the general public by providing research-based insights to inform public discussion and policy in response to Covid-19.

KEY FINDINGS

Media Consumption

• The majority of respondents (72%) were exposed to news about Covid-19 at least once every day.

• Television was the most common type of media that respondents were exposed to at least once a week (68%).



Attitudes Toward Covid-19

• The majority of respondents in Uganda (78%) fear Covid-19 less in July than they did in March.

• Ugandans are not all behaving the same in how seriously they apply public health directives like physical distancing, mask-wearing and hand washing. 35% of respondents report being “very serious” and 27% are “somewhat serious”, while 23% are “somewhat relaxed” and 14% are “very relaxed”. 



Public Opinion on the Government Response to Covid-19

• The majority of those surveyed (80%) did not receive the posho and beans that were distributed by the Government of Uganda as food aid during the lockdown.

• The vast majority of respondents (92%) said that they watched at least one of President Museveni’s addresses on Covid-19.

• 75% of respondents approved or strongly approved of the Government’s decision to lockdown the country in March.

• Public opinion on the continuing curfew is mixed, as 41% approve or strongly approve, 50% disapprove or strongly disapprove, and 9% are not sure.

• 63% of respondents disapprove or strongly disapprove of the way that the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) handled the Covid-19 crisis.



Economic Impact of Covid-19 in Uganda

• Only 21% of respondents reported that their employment situation has not been affected by Covid-19.

• 19% lost their job, with job loss reporting slightly higher among women and people living upcountry.


• 31% had their work hours reduced and 26% had pay reduced.

• 23% of respondents are worried that they may lose their job or business.

• 25% have been working from home.

• Only 18% have managed fine with no financial difficulties.

• 26% have failed to pay back outstanding loans and 22% have taken on more debt.

• 12% of respondents have sold assets.

• 60% of respondents have spent from savings.

• 51% have reduced their spending.

• 23% have missed meals.



Changes in Transportation Habits

• Use of boda bodas decreased by 85% between March and July of 2020.

• Use of taxis (matatus) also dropped by 47%.

• Use of private cars was the same in March as July at 34% of respondents.

• Respondents reported a 187% increase in walking and 175% increase in riding
bicycles.


Public Opinion on Electoral Politics

• 64% of respondents disapprove or strongly disapprove of a “scientific election”.

• 52% of respondents believe that the next election should be postponed. 


Further details on our findings and methodology can be found in the full report below.
Download the full report here.

If you wish to collaborate with us on further research, please email anne@whiteheadcommunications.com
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Covid-19 Impact in Uganda: public opinion survey in field

7/6/2020

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Whitehead Communications has a new survey now in the field, which will publish results on this page before the end of July, 2020 - so watch this space!

You can take the survey -> here.
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The survey includes 25 questions related to the impact of Covid-19 in Uganda and takes about 5 to 10 minutes to complete. For those who wish to enter their contact details in the last question, we will randomly select 3 respondents to send a data bundle of 1GB to their number in the week of July 15th.
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Croydon Covid-19 Mutual Aid (CCMA) Community Feedback Survey Results

6/23/2020

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On March 23rd of 2020, the United Kingdom shut down to stop the spread of Coronavirus. Alongside official government efforts, local community groups quickly began forming to patch the holes in their social safety net. Neighbours reached out to support one another with the resources and information they needed to adapt quickly to a frightening new reality. In a remarkable example of humanity's good will and togetherness, new localised networks emerged to face a common threat.

The Croydon Covid-19 Mutual Aid (CCMA) group was formed in March of 2020 to organize willing volunteers in this South London community to aid each other to overcome new challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown. In the following months, thousands of community members joined the CCMA Facebook group, leaflets were delivered door-to-door, a help line was set up and dozens of ward-level WhatsApp groups were formed, which organised volunteer activities and connected members to local aid organisations.

In May of 2020, it became clear that the needs of the community were changing. Some people began returning to work and some CCMA fora became less active, while many continued shielding and new issues began to emerge such as mental health and financial hardship brought on by the massive disruption to people's social lives and the economy. At the end of May 2020, Whitehead Communications collaborated with the CCMA to put together the following survey to gather feedback from the community about how to shift its strategy and hold together while addressing the changing demands of the community.

The survey gathered 234 responses over a two-week period from 28th May to 14th June, 2020. Survey respondents came from across 19 wards, with the largest share from Addiscombe (16.4%) and Thornton Heath (13.4%), and a range of different age groups, the largest share between the ages of 35 and 44 (31.2%).


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We asked respondents how they would describe their role in the CCMA.

More than half (53.8%) identified themselves as volunteers. This question allowed for multiple responses.

Second to volunteer, people identified themselves as a "resident in need", then a "WhatsApp group admin" and "other", which included descriptions like "resident", "member", "vulnerable person" and "concerned citizen". The survey also gathered responses from people who identified as having roles at a local food banks, soup kitchens, public servants, places of worship, GP surgery staff, local businesses, residents associations, community link builders, local hubs and charity organizations. 
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We asked how people first heard about the CCMA. 

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Most (54.5%) heard about us through Facebook. This was followed by WhatsApp (17.2%), Leaflets (12.9%), told by a friend/neighbour (11.2%), and other channels including Google search, an email from the local MP Sarah Jones (4.3%), Croydon Council, TV, Newspaper, NARA Residents Association, the Next Door App, CVA, a GP and the survey itself.
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We asked people which services they were aware that CCMA offers.

​Most were aware of shopping services (91.5%). The majority were also aware of phone befriending (67.9%). The third most known service was dog walking (46.2%). Not many respondents knew about the availability of £15 food parcels (23.9%). Other services that people knew about were collecting prescriptions (8.1%), food bank referrals, information sharing, and 6.4% were not aware of any services.
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We asked: "Are you willing to volunteer in your community through the CCMA on an ongoing basis, even as the lockdown loosens and people return to work?" 

Yes - 62.3% (144 respondents)
No - 12.6% (29 respondents)
Maybe - 25.1% (58 respondents) 

The good news is that most CCMA volunteers wish to continue! The "maybes" were mostly also willing to continue volunteering, dependent on the what is needed and their availability.
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We asked: "What are the greatest challenges you expect to face in the coming months that you believe could be overcome through community mutual aid?"  

Some key trends emerged, including:

​- People who remain shielding need support with shopping and other errands
- Community should prepare to respond to any further spikes in cases or lockdowns
- People need referrals to organizations that help with food security, housing, employment, childcare and other types of aid
- People need reliable information, such as: official updates, available support, promoting local businesses and community activities, job opportunities and how others are coping
- Local businesses and people who lost their jobs need help to recover financially
- There is more loneliness, agoraphobia, depression and other mental health issues
- People miss opportunities to socialize, "community spirit" and "togetherness"
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- The community suffers from inequality, social discord and concerns like racism (note that Croydon is an ethnically diverse community and this survey was circulating during a resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests) 
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We asked: "Is there anything that you think the CCMA could do to help our community in the coming months that it may not be doing already?"
 
Suggestions for what CCMA could do in the coming months included:

​- Continue to seek out and support elderly and vulnerable people in our community
- Share more information about: available support services, educational resources, job opportunities / career advice, buying local, outdoor activities, specific requests for help
- Connect people in specific groups or pairings for emotional/practical support, ex. parents with children, elderly with neighbours, similar skills/interests, shared resources
- Partner with organisations: Postcards of Kindness, Age UK, CVA, Resident Associations
- Organise communications: listen more, report back on what the CCMA is doing, weekly newsletter, put up posters on notice boards and other offline channels, social media ads
- Educate people on community interest, ex. pick up rubbish, maintain social distance
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We asked: "Do you or your organization have any skills or services to offer the local community (or are already doing so), which you think the CCMA should know about?" 

Available skills and services in our community included:

​- Shopping, dog walking and phone befriending
- Youth mentorship
- Elderly support and healthcare
- Legal advice- Data analysis
- Tech support
- Tutoring, English language and referrals to further training
- Meditation and art therapy
- Chef / cooking- Valuing / selling antiques
- Community mobilization and stakeholder engagement
- Marketing and digital marketing 



We asked: "What do you feel is the best method for CCMA to communicate with you?" This question allowed people to select multiple responses. 

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The majority of respondents selected WhatsApp as their preference (76.8%). However, 75% of the survey responses were retrieved through WhatsApp shares, so this is likely not representative of the overall Croydon community.

Other popular channels of communication included email (55.7%), SMS (28.9%), Facebook (23.2%) and Phone Calls (16.7%). Other communications channels included Slack (9.2%), through local community organizations (7.9%), Twitter (6.6%), Messenger, leaflets, Face-to-Face meetings and places of worship.
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These survey results suggest that the Croydon Covid-19 Mutual Aid (CCMA) members overall do wish to hold together as a community and continue providing support to each other as the crisis develops into a new stage. Emerging community demands include mental health and financial struggles, and making sure that no one is left behind. The CCMA can continue to play its role to connect, inform and serve our community while not forgetting about the vulnerable people who are still shielding. In the coming weeks, CCMA will adapt its communications strategy and ways of working in order to listen and respond to feedback from our community. 

This survey was managed by Anne Whitehead, Director of Whitehead Communications and a CCMA volunteer, in coordination with the CCMA organising committee. We are grateful to all those who responded for taking the time to contribute your ideas, and encourage people who live or work in Croydon to continue engaging with the CCMA.

You can find out more about the CCMA at www.croydoncovid19mutualaid.uk or contact croydoncovid19ma@gmail.com / 020 3322 8379.
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Ngalabi Short Film Festival 2019: Celebrating Short Films from East Africa and Beyond

1/23/2019

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Goethe-Zentrum Kampala and Maisha Film Lab are proud to present to you the 3rd edition of Ngalabi Short Film Festival. 

Dates: 1st – 3rd February 2019, 7pm

Venue: Goethe-Zentrum Kampala/UGCS, Rooftop Terrace (Kamwokya, Bukoto Street, Plot 52) FREE ENTRY to all screenings and Q&A Sessions

The festival is supported by British Council’s East Africa Arts programme, The Embassy of Sweden in Kampala, The German Embassy Kampala, Independent Days Filmfesf and Filmboard Karlsruhe e. V.

Ngalabi Short Film Festival will take place from 1st – 3rd February at the Goethe-Zentrum rooftop terrace on Bukoto Street in Kamwokya. Screenings and Q&A Session with Ugandan and international filmmakers will start at 7pm on each day. On the opening day, Friday 1st of February, the audience is warmly invited for an opening cocktail at 5pm before the first screenings. Everyone is invited to attend.
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Since it premiered in 2017, the main focus of the festival is to promote short films as an art form in Sub-Saharan Africa. Through the festival we hope to showcase the wide variety of genres and styles that the medium has to offer with the hope that it will demonstrate short films’ viability as a storytelling tool in the region.

This year’s edition will boast a rich catalogue of films from all over the African continent; with notable award-winners like: ‘Kyenvu’ by Kemiyondo Coutinho and ‘Maraya Ni’ by Patricia Olwoch from Uganda; and ‘Aya’ by Moufida Fedhila from Tunisia, which collected several awards for Best Short in 2018. We shall also have the world premier of the Ugandan film ‘Hibo & Hoden’ by Nikissi Serumaga. We also wish to celebrate the return of Kampala-based filmmaker Malcolm Bigyemano aka Mr. Mankwa to the festival. His film ‘Jethro x Jethro’ played at the very first edition of the festival. This edition he will be bringing us the thrilling short ‘Mawe’ – a film that we feel pushes the boundaries of authentic Ugandan stories in cinema. 

This edition will also see an expansion of our European film program. We will be welcoming films from Germany, the United Kingdom and Sweden. The films will tackle a variety of issues like immigration, climate change, living in the diaspora and many more. You won’t want to miss a single one.

The festival will also be conducting a free three-day workshop for emerging African filmmakers. The workshop will be facilitated by renown film producer and head of the film department of London Film School: Femi Kolade. The workshop will offer the participants access to advanced film-making tools and techniques, while serving as a hub within which they can interface and collaborate with one another. 

Follow on Social Media:

Facebook – www.facebook.com/NgalabiShorts Instagram – @NgalabiShorts
Twitter - @NgalabiShorts #NgalabiShortFilmFestival


For more information, please contact:
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Lara Buchmann, Goethe-Zentrum Kampala (Cultural Coordinator): 0794303702 / cultural@goethezentrumkampala.org 

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EAST AFRICAN RECORDS PRESENTS: MUNGO’S HIFI (UK) UGANDA – KENYA TOUR

10/29/2018

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East African Records (EAR) is gearing up to host “MUNGO’S HI FI TOUR” with two reggae- dancehall concerts in Uganda. The UK reggae collective Mungo Hi Fi’s tour is set to feature their new star female artiste, Eva Lazarus, alongside Ugandan artists, first in Kampala on November 9th at The Square, then in Jinja on November 10th at Pit Stop (formerly Laftaz). East African Records will also be rolling out new music with Ugandan, East African and UK artists during the tour as artistes come together to collaborate in studio and shoot videos for new releases.

MUNGO’S HI FI FEATURING EVA LAZARUS CONCERTS

The two upcoming concerts are anticipated to bring together reggae and dancehall artists from Uganda together with international stars from the UK-based collective Mungo’s Hi Fi, with their main act Eva Lazarus as the headliner. Uganda reggae legend Ziggy Dee is expected to perform a new song he is producing with the UK unit, and other Ugandan reggae artistes like Blessed San have already been signed on to perform, as well as Nazizi from East Africa’s top reggae group, Necessary Noize.

The concerts are set to happen at Kampala’s The Square (3rd Street, Industrial Area) on 9th November and at Pit Stop (formerly Laftaz) in Jinja on 10th November, from 6pm until late. Both events will cater to a mixed crowd of local reggae fans and international Mungo’s Hi Fi die hards. Entrance to the Kampala concert is set at 30,000 shs, while the Jinja concert will cost 15,000 shs only.

Kenya Concerts include:

November 16th at K1 Klub House - More on the Facebook event page here

November 17th at Distant Relatives Kilifi's Eco Lodge - More on the Facebook event page here

MUNGO’S HI FI

Mungo's Hi Fi are a Glasgow-based sound system and production unit who pull off that rare trick of making reggae-dancehall that is unique, authentic and quality. True to reggae-dancehall’s DIY ethos, the creators of Mungo’s Hi Fi built their first sound system from speakers found in a rubbish dump and began producing on an old Atari at the turn of the millennium. Following some early recordings on London’s Dubhead records, including debut album Mungo’s Hi Fi Meets Brother Culture, they founded their Scotch Bonnet label in 2005. Today, Mungo’s is a global operation with six core members, all committed to spreading their philosophy of serious, seismic productions plus easy going democratic dancehall fun. Highly collaborative, they’ve worked with everyone from Sugar Minott and Ranking Joe in Jamaica to Major Lazer in America. This will not be the first time the unit has performed in Uganda, having graced the first ever Nyege Nyege festival.
For more information on Mungo’s Hifi, check out the links below:
www.mungoshifi.net https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mungo%27s_Hi_Fi 
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EVA LAZARUS

A Winner of the 2017 Best Female Vocalist/MC at We Love Jungle Awards, Eva’s powerful voice and musical flavours span across genres from Reggae to Hip Hop, DnB to Jungle and beyond. 2017 saw the collaborative release with Mungo’s Hi Fi Amsterdam EP, which was listed on BBC 6Music and features in David Rodigan’s Scorchers of 2017 list. A string of releases from Eva over the past year has included singles with Nextmen, Gardna X Kreed, Gentleman’s Dub Club, Xoa and a track that featured in Giles Peterson’s list of 2017’s Best Records, Zed Bias ft. Eva Lazarus Restless.
Eva & her Mungo’s Hi Fi crew are primed for a great time in Uganda, packing a stage show jammed full props and confetti canons, and are ready to nice up the dance!

Find more information about Eva Lazarus here:
www.evalazarus.com https://soundcloud.com/evalazarus

More information about the lineup and what to expect will be shared within the coming week. Follow EAST AFRICAN RECORDS on social media to stay up to date.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eastafricanrecords/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/eastafricanrecs
You can also follow updates online by searching the hashtag #MungosHiFiUganda 


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Eva Lazarus
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Mungo's Hi Fi

For more information, please contact: Florence Kakatshozi at flo@whiteheadcommunications.ug or Anne Whitehead at +256750501111 (Whatsapp) / anne@whiteheadcommunications.com 

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Goethe-Zentrum Kampala presents: Mirembe Rhythm DJ dance party!

9/27/2018

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Goethe-Zentrum Kampala is gearing up to host “Mirembe Rhythm,” which is sure to be an energizing and unifying dance party offering a music mix, especially featuring Electronic Dance Music (EDM) and female DJs centre stage. The event will showcase both local and international DJs at The Square, 3rd Street in Industrial Area, on 12th October, from 6pm ‘til late. Mirembe Rhythm is 5k entry only.
 
MIREMBE RHYTHM
 
Mirembe Rhythm is a DJ concert and dance party that will feature guest DJ Sarah Farina and music producer and DJ Yo van Lenz from Germany alongside prominent Electronic Dance Music (EDM) DJs from Uganda like Hakuna Kulala, Catu Diosis, DJ Rachael, The Control Posse (an EDM/Hip Hop Fusion collective of MCs and a DJ), and Kampala’s much loved dancehall spinner, DJ Ciza.
 
The event will offer a blend of EDM, Hip Hop and dancehall, foreign and local, to create a fun and peace-loving vibe for everyone to enjoy. “Mirembe (Peace) Rhythm” represents positivity, peace and unity, music/dance fun and positive vibes!
 
SARAH FARINA AND YO VAN LENZ
 
Both featured foreign artists are certified members of the ‘Through My Speakers’ collective, an international group of friends whose similar mindset, passion and commitment to music organically evolved into an event night and its own label with a common goal to bring people together. Through My Speakers is also about breaking boundaries in club music, bringing people together and creating a musical journey for the crowd. 
 
With 10 years of bonding over the love of their similar influences, Sarah and Yo's enthusiasm to explore, from club tunes to psychedelic guitars, is infectious. And there is no indication of them slowing their creative flow. In June 2018, they released the collaborative album, PEACE DUB, which reflects their ethos to create spaces that feel free of bias or judgment, in real life and online, and to elevate well being, physically and digitally.
 
More about Sarah Farina & Yo van Lenz:
http://www.throughmyspeakers.com
https://soundcloud.com/sarahfarina
https://soundcloud.com/yovanlenz
 
MCing the Mirembe Rhythm Party will be Gloria Kiconco!
 
More information will be shared about the line up and what to expect in the coming weeks. Follow the Mirembe Rhythm Facebook event page for more: https://www.facebook.com/events/311647292747229/
 
Partners of Mirembe Rhythm, Femme Electronic, will also be holding a free workshop together with Sarah Farina and Yo Van Lenz teaching the basics and depths of DJing and production on Sunday, 14th October, 2018. Interested participants can contact Lara at cultural@goethezentrumkampala.org with a letter of motivation to participate. The deadline to apply is: Sunday, October 7th, 2018.
 
 

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Présentation du Club rFi: les médias sociaux en Ouganda: logique, méthodes et l’avenir

3/19/2018

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Ce weekend de la francophonie en Ouganda, j'ai eu le plaisir de faire une presentation aux membres du Club rFi à Alliance Française Kampala. Voici le PowerPoint que j'ai utilisé dans cette présentation qui fournit une introduction aux sujet que nous avons couverts. 
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À la fin de la présentation, nous avons eu une excellent discussion sur les tactiques de Facebook pour aider les journalistes Africains à promouvoir leurs histoires en ligne. (Cela fait longtemps que je n'ai pas fait de présentation en français, alors veuillez m'excuser pour toute erreur. )

Does your organization need social media training? Please contact anne@whiteheadcommunications.com to arrange.

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