Hillary Murani
Hillary N. Murani is a Kenya-based multimedia journalist, photojournalist, and communications strategist with over 20 years of experience. His reporting and photography have appeared in Al Jazeera, The Guardian (UK), El País, Euronews, and GI-TOC, and he has spent two decades with Kenya Broadcasting Corporation. He specializes in climate and ocean governance reporting, covering issues from coastal ecosystem collapse to illegal fishing and fisheries transparency, including coverage of the 11th Our Ocean Conference. Beyond journalism, Hillary moderates panels at corporate and leadership conferences, advises NGOs on strategic communications and donor reporting, and is the founder of Murani Publishers, a publishing house that produces legacy books for African leaders. He is the author of two books: Tossed (a memoir) and Media Firewall (a media industry handbook). He is based in Nairobi and available for international assignments.
Blue Ledger: Who Harvests, Who Benefits?
Celebrations above water, crisis beneath it. Kenya's exposure to foreign vessels, hidden ownership, Africa's push for electronic monitoring, and voices from the Our Ocean Conference.
By Hillary Murani
By Hillary Murani
As UN looks to Kenya, could new global hub deepen inequality in Nairobi?
Kenyans veer between hope for prosperity and wariness as UN plans relocation of key offices from high-cost Western cities.Nairobi, Kenya – In the shadow of gleaming glass towers in the upmarket neighbourhood of Gigiri – where manicured lawns meet the edge of Karura Forest and United Nations staff in air-conditioned vehicles glide past security checkpoints – lies a different reality just minutes away.In the cramped alleyways of Githogoro slum, just 2km (about a mile) from where Kenya’s capital, N...
Los kenianos que aún arrastran las consecuencias de las inundaciones
Cientos de personas que fueron desplazadas por las intensas lluvias este año en el país africano aseguran no haber recibido las compensaciones prometidas, y sobreviven en la pobrezaEntre marzo y mayo, las intensas lluvias y las devastadoras inundaciones desbordaron los cauces de los ríos Nairobi y Athi, en Kenia, mataron e hirieron a centenares de personas y desplazaron a miles. Una de las afectadas fue Margaret Njoki, de 67 años, en Nairobi. “Nos evacuaron de repente por la amenaza de inundacio...
From criminal to ‘teacher’: the ex-gangster tackling crime in Nairobi
At the entrance of Kibagare, a slum in Nairobi’s outskirts, boots of dead gangsters dangle from electricity wires that hover over ramshackle homes of wood and iron sheets.With little state protection from crime, angry local people will often take the law into their own hands and beat an offender who is caught in the act, sometimes to death.Throughout a decade of crime and drug abuse, Peter Wainaina, 32, narrowly escaped death on several occasions, until he retired from the underworld in 2009. Si...