SCHOOL OF HUMAN RESOURCE AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
Abstract
This paper looks at the various media policy engagements in Kenya from the onset of
colonialism, through the various administrations in the post-colonial era to the present. The
purpose of the paper is to examine the circumstances that have informed the media policy
changes through the period Kenya has been in existence as a modern nation. The paper draws
mainly from primary sources including papers and published books on how media has been
treated by successive administrations in Kenya. It has shown how the much sought media
freedom has been continually elusive, and even after the promulgation of the new constitution
which gave wide latitude for media operations, other roadblocks in the name of conglomeration,
concentration and cross-media ownership have come into play to complicate the equation. The
study concludes by underlining the importance of a free and unhindered media and recommends
the way forward in the formation of an oversight body as the new constitution directs.
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