Kenya: The Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) through its Nyanza Regional Office, participated in the 9th Edition of the Kisii University Cultural Festival, closing ceremony, held on 9th February 2024.
Many senior dignitaries attended the ceremony, including the Kenya Senior Licensing Officer Nacy Achieng. She also shared her words with attendants on behalf of KFCB at the colourful event, urging the youths to be ambassadors of cultural heritage, saying that KFCB, through its mandate, is committed to promoting Kenya’s culture, moral values, and National aspirations.
She also advised youth to consume audiovisual content responsibly and parents to be aware of the audiovisual content that children access on the Internet and other broadcast channels and guide them appropriately.
Additionally, Public sensitization is one of the Board’s channels of realizing its consumer advisory function, in line with our Stakeholder Engagement Policy, as well as our Strategic Plan (2022-2027) and PC targets for the FY 2023/2024.
Institutions of learning from the ECD to the university level are among the Board’s key stakeholders in our Media Literacy Programme dubbed: You Are What You Consume, aimed at creating awareness on the responsible consumption of audiovisual content.
The KFCB is keen on working with stakeholders on programmes and initiatives geared towards identifying and nurturing youths’ talent and creating a facilitative regulatory environment for creatives to showcase and monetize their talents in line with the Talata Hela Initiative being championed by the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports as well as the Fifth Pillar of the Bottom Up- Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA).
Attendees were happy with the ceremony and seemed more happy with the speech. One of the attendees said, “We appreciate the long partnership we have always had between our two institutions to make this event a consistent success.”