Watch the Live Coverage of the 4th Annual Lecture on Media and Politics in Africa

African Centre for Media Excellence is holding the fourth annual lecture on Media and Politics in Africa on Wednesday, 8 November 2017, at Golf Course Hotel in Kampala, Uganda.

The main purpose of the lecture series is to explore the relationship between media and politics amidst changing technological, demographic, and political conditions on the continent.

Dr Willy Mutunga, the former chief justice and president of the Supreme Court of Kenya, is delivering this year’s  (2017) lecture.

Dr Mutunga’s lecture is titled, “Politics, Media and Judicial Independence in Africa”. “Dr Mutunga will draw on his own experience while at the judiciary to offer insight into how the cutthroat worlds of media and politics affect judicial independence on the continent,” said Dr Peter Mwesige, ACME’s executive director.

“We are honoured to have him in a year when the Supreme Court of Kenya made history by annulling the presidential election held on 8 August.” Dr Mutunga was Kenya’s chief justice and president of the Supreme Court from 2011 to 2016.

He has recently served as the Commonwealth secretary general’s special envoy to the Maldives, and as a distinguished scholar-in-residence at the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School in New York City. Before becoming chief justice, Dr Mutunga headed Ford Foundation’s East Africa office based in Nairobi.

You can watch the 4th Annual Lecture on Media and Politics in Africa below;

“Given the involving political debates taking place in East Africa, especially in Uganda and Kenya, we could not have had a better speaker that Dr Mutunga — lawyer, thinker and reform leader,” said Mr Bernard Tabaire, ACME’s director of programmes.

You can follow and participate in the live video, text, photo and social media reporting of the 4th Annual Lecture on Media and Politics in Africa through Twitter and Facebook by using the hashtag #ACMELecture and WhatsApp to 0784300556 below;

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