Below is a facebook post by a guy calling himself Richard Oduor Oduku. A brilliant mind this one.

"@Larrymadowo has been in Europe, enjoying the delights and efficiency, and it's beautiful thing following his joys, dissapointments, and surprises. But when you go to the comments, you get these guys who are like "we've lived here for 20 years and we don't post about trains everyday but you come for one day and you post every minute" and such like comments. What these little commenters forget is that to be a writer is to be a perpetual stranger, observing and writing down the little things the masses have been desensitized to experience. This attitude is also why a majority of travel literature about Africa are written by white people. These guys come, for all manner of reasons, traverse our lands and write about it. These Africans in Europe, like many Africans in Africa, lack the curiosity and desire to map their environments. They don't understand that to see, to observe, to write about, is to interpret according to one's cultural, historical, knowledge lenses. They complain about European's mislabelling, misjudgment, and (read Binyavanga Wainaina's "How to Write About Africa" for all the tropes) but are not courageous enough to use their lenses to write about their own lands or their experiences in Europe when they travel. They don't want to impose their cultural lens on Europe. They are non-participants in the global production of knowledge and will forever be oppressed by other people's lenses. They have not learnt how to challenge colonial power structures, particularly when it comes to representations. In 2018, we begin work on an important issue on travel writing in East Africa."

Beautiful post.

Madodo should have asked CNN about what Trump thinks about them (CNN) and other fake media.

He is doing well and I like the guy, he's a good guy. I think people confuse him for a journalist as the title of this thread reads. Larry is a presenter and not a journalist. He started writing his own article but I don't think that qualifies him to be a journalist. Your thoughts?

He is a slay king

i find this hypocritical unless he resigns immediately. Larry Madowo is an employee of Nation Media and he benefits directly (i.e. receives a salary) based on the difficult financial and strategic decisions that the Nation Media board and senior management have to make to ensure the business makes enough money to pay him at the end of the month.

it's like working for a company that's a ponzi sceheme and everyday you wake up saying how evil it is but at the end of the mnth, you go and collect a salary from that very same evil company. yet you know how that money was made.

it's easy to be idealistic when you arent making any tough decisions and are simply being carried on the backs of those that have to as you wax lyrical on how righteous you are. the shareholders and business managers have to take much more long term view if they want to stay in business. this is not unique to kenya. american companies bend over backwards when they go to do business in china because at the end of the day they are more interested in hearing that kaching!

i dont support the GoK's intimidation of the media but i'm also wary of people who are ideaologues for retweets and likes only and dont really put their money where their mouth is.