As you will know, William Hamiliton, then owner of the Wall Street Journal, was brutally honest: “A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatever to the public which grants it no franchise. It is therefore…
In this arrangement, the elite set themselves head over heels to control this critical instrument of commerce and social engineering. As Charles Wright Mills crisply observed in his 1956 seminal work, The Power Elite, that…
The printing press, that wonder constellation of Johannes Gutenberg, revolutionized the world like never before. It spread knowledge, spawned industrial revolution and the enlightenment age but also with-it toxic propaganda. Thanks to the press and…
BY ERIC WAMANJI NOTE: This is a Long Read A recent research by TIFA revealing that Public Relations professionals in Kenya lack communicative competencies – written and verbal – is ironic, dispiriting but hardly surprising.…
By Eric Wamanji Oil may have ruled the 19th Century and powered economies. That’s seems to be a golden era in the distant past. Today we are talking of data. Big Data replaced oil as…
The supremacy of public relations (PR) or strategic communication to drive business agenda cannot be gainsaid. PR shapes our worldviews and choices. Indeed, when tactically deployed, PR constructs amiable images and reputation for organisations yielding…
By ERIC WAMANJI What makes some people more successful than others? Why is it that in organizations, some are promoted; others are not, even if their competencies are almost at par? ( of course, don’t…
By Eric Wamanji The post-modern corporate world operates in a complex realm characterised by explosion of communication platforms,dynamic geopolitical, and religious ideologies and a vibrant heterogeneous culture. With the emergence of the information superhighway occasioned…
By Eric Wamanji Once upon a time, the raspy voice of grandma rolled out narratives by the crackling fireside keeping the world bubbly and cohesive. Those tales of yore redefined life, gave meaning to phenomena,…
Eric Wamanji When French President Emanuel Macron came to Kenya recently, there is one wish that probably ran through his mind, though he didn’t utter it- French to be Kenya’s national language.You see, for ages,…
