Kenya 🇰🇪 Teachers Are The Most Well Paid In East Africa

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ANALYSIS By Dorris Otieno Kenyan teachers are not only the best paid in East Africa, but also earn almost 12 times more than the country's average pay, a comparative study by Nation Newsplex and the Institute of Economic Affairs reveals. Even as teachers go on strike for the 12th time since their first industrial action in 1962, the analysis, which compares teachers' salaries in Kenya with those of their peers in select African countries , also finds that the lowest-paid teacher in Kenya earns more than the highest-paid teacher in Uganda. Uganda and South Africa were chosen as countries against which to compare wages of teachers because they have the most up-to-date data against which the comparison could be made. While Tanzania was not included in the comparison because only average pay for the year 2011 was available, even its figures indicated that Kenyan teachers earn more than their Tanzanian counterparts. The highest paid Kenyan teacher earns almost 12 times more than the

Broadcasting: Another Opportunity For Investment in Tanzania



Broadcasting sector constitutes few players who own multiple TV stations and or radio channels. IPP Media, for instance, owns three TV channels, namely ITV, EATV, and Capital Africa Media Group owns four TV channels, known as DTV, Channel 10, CTN and C2C, whereas Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation owns two TV channels, TBC1 and TBC2. Most current information available from TCRA indicated that there are now 29 television stations and 47 radio stations nationwide. With regards to radio broadcasting, FM radio stations dominate the airwaves, most of them focusing on musical entertainment. As of December 2012, TCRA managed to perform a digital broadcast switch, which entails the end of the analogue broadcast as most broadcasting is now digital, the fact that improved the signal quality and increased the coverage area.



Given a number of broadcasting players in addition to the nature of products, this sector offers an attractive environment for further investments. Some specific areas for investment are mentioned in the next bullet paragraph. Radio broadcast media also presents lucrative areas of investing, thanks to TCRA’s digital switchover initiative. The broadcasting sector [both TV and radio] presents plenty of investment opportunities, such as:
  • Establishment of television production companies
  • Creating mainstream television programs for international market
  • Provision of local content television channels for local market
  • Management of the programs data stream
  • Service of program guide
  • Channel capacity and reconfiguration management
  • Transmission path redundancy and fail-safe systems
  • News systems [for gathering and processing news]
  • Digital audio equipment (for production and processing)
  • Archiving (for the storage of audio and text)
  • Automation (for scheduling & control) etc 

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