Five East African universities add solutions journalism to curricula

Five universities across East Africa, in Kenya (Kibabii University, Rongo University, Maseno University), Rwanda (University of Rwanda) and Uganda (Makerere University), incorporated solutions journalism into their curricula after professors, lecturers and postgraduate students were trained by Science Africa, one of two organizations coordinating the Solutions Journalism Africa Initiative (a project supported by SJN). Courses in health communication, climate change reporting, feature writing, development communication, and investigative reporting now include modules focused on solutions reporting. Other Kenyan higher education institutions are seeking to provide similar classes. In addition, between 2020 and 2023, twenty-five journalism students from Kenyan public and private universities undertook internships at Science Africa, where they were taught solutions journalism and science journalism.