Fundraising for Phase 2 has ended but CRL members are still encouraged to contribute to the program.Ĭlick the link below to learn more about the GPA CRL Alliance, available collections, and plans for the next phase of the Alliance. The continuation of this highly successful academic-commercial partnership between CRL and East View will serve our shared values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and continue to extend access to global newspaper collections to the widest possible audience. The first of these collections – Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers, Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers, Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers, Imperial Russian Newspapers, Southeast Asian Newspapers, and South Asian Newspapers – are all Open Access collections and are the result of close collaboration between East View and CRL, with CRL advisors selecting and curating the content, and CRL members funding the collections to facilitate global Open Access.Įncouraged by the positive results of Phase 1, a second phase of the GPA CRL Alliance is now underway. Top Kenyan comedian Timothy Kimani, popularly known as Njugush, has rallied behind actor Tyler Mbaya, popularly known as. Launched in 2019, the charter phase of the GPA CRL Alliance resulted in the creation of nine collections, encompassing hundreds of newspaper titles and totaling over 4.5 million pages, of which 3 million pages are fully Open Access. Non-CRL institutions that wish to purchase the East African Newspapers collection should contact us for more information.Įast View and the Center for Research Libraries have created the GPA CRL Alliance to steer the development of a series of thematically designed databases for East View’s Global Press Archive program to meet the specific needs and priorities of CRL members. The collection is available for free to all CRL members institutions. The East African Newspapers collection is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions. This collection includes over 800,000 pages total from three titles: Daily Nation (Kenya), The Ethiopian Herald, and The Monitor (Uganda). The East African Newspapers collection provides insight into this region during this critical time, featuring key newspapers from the region from the 1940s to the mid 2010s. This period was also punctuated by famine, drought, political uprisings, border disputes, and war as countries worked to navigate the post-colonial landscape. In East Africa, this time witnessed the growth of decolonization as independence movements swelled, and local, autonomous self-governance took hold throughout the region. Their main competitors are The Standard, published by the Standard Group, The Star, published by the Radio Africa Group and People Daily, published by MediaMax Limited.The twentieth and early twenty-first centuries were a time of great change for Africa. The Daily Nation and its Sunday edition paper Sunday Nation had a market share of 53% in 2011. A 55-minute colour documentary film about the paper was released in 2000, directed by Hillie Molenaar and Joop van Wijk. LIVE: LIVE: Fuel prices dip marginally as VAT hike in budget looms large Business By Macharia Kamau 1 hr ago Rutos charm offensive on foreign investors Business By Graham Kajilwa 1 hr ago Rutos. Access is partially free and the site's daily hit rate is more than three million. It also maintains a website, which hosts online editions of the daily and Sunday titles. The newspaper is published by Nation Media Group from its headquarters at Nation Centre on Kimathi Street in Nairobi. The publisher was East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd, which later became the Nation Media Group with operations throughout the African Great Lakes region. An English language edition called Daily Nation was published on 3 October 1960, in a process organised by former editor of the British News Chronicle, Michael Curtis. It was bought in 1959 by the Aga Khan, and became a daily newspaper, Taifa Leo (Swahili for "Nation Today"), in January 1960. The Daily Nation was started in the year 1958 as a Swahili weekly called Taifa by the Englishman Charles Hayes. Nation Center, headquarters of the Nation Media Group who publish the Daily Nation
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