Facebook Marketing Executive Kay Madati Of Tanzania Appointed As BET Networks Chief Digital Officer And Executive Vice President

BET Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), announced that it has hired Kay Madati as Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer. Madati, a Tanzanian citizen who has lived in Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, will lead BET’s teams responsible for all aspects of digital, social and mobile strategy and oversee operations, content creation, technology and product development across the suite of BET Network’s digital platforms

 Madati, whose appointment was announced last week, will oversee BET Digital, the interactive arm of BET Networks whose platforms include BET.com, which encompasses entertainment, music, culture, and news; BET Mobile, which provides apps, ringtones, games and video content for wireless devices; Centric.tv, the online home for the Centric cable channel; and BET Video On Demand, one of the largest VOD services providing African-American content.

Kay Madati, Executive Vice President & Chief Digital Officer, BET Networks.

 Prior to his appointment at BET, Madati was most recently the Head of Entertainment and Media on the Global Marketing Solutions team at Facebook Inc. His team helped position Facebook Inc. as a key strategic partner for digital and social solutions with film studios, TV networks and entertainment companies. Prior to joining the social media company in 2011, Madati was the Vice President of Audience Experience at CNN Worldwide, where he helped to integrate social media into CNN’s daily programming across multiple platforms. Madati also held marketing and operations roles at Octagon Worldwide and BMW of North America.

 “BET Networks is a global brand, with a trendsetting audience, and an unrivaled leadership position in the digital and social space. I am excited and energized to unlock more ways for our audience to watch, share, stream, download, and fully engage with all of the network’s award-winning content,” said Madati. We are in the midst of an unprecedented shift in consumer content consumption and media habits, and I am honored to join BET at a time when we are well poised to redefine digital, mobile, and social TV experiences.

 He will report to Debra L. Lee, the Chairman and CEO of BET Networks, and will be based in Los Angeles. “Our audience fully embraces technology and lives on multiple screens,” Lee said in a statement. “We are thrilled to welcome Kay to the team, and look forward to his expertise and strategic leadership in the fast-paced world of digital and social media, as consumers continue to turn to BET to discover what’s hot and what’s next.”

N.B: #Source by Forbes.

It is great pleasure to resume the blog activities after 5 years of silence. I want to take this opportunity to everyone who posted the comments and those who have been visiting it. As I am resuming it again, I would like to invite you all to see what I am going to share with you. My aim is to continue to share with you a good news but this time I will focus more on what Africa has offered or has to offer. I will talk more on Art,Culture, social, as well as politics. Welcome and please never hesitate to share with me your thoughts and correcting me. Thanks

Gov’t recommits to skills development

Rwandan Diplomatic envoys are also taking part in the National retreat at Kivu Serena Hotel.

RUBAVU - The Government of Rwanda yesterday renewed its commitment to focus on skills development, in particular, urgently investing in vocational training.
This was reached on the third day of the on-going National Leadership Retreat taking place at Kivu Serena Hotel in Rubavu District. A review of the recent skills audit report cited a critical lack of skilled technicians in every sector.

The retreat tasked the Rwanda Workforce Development Authority (WDA), established in 2008, to lead the initiative which will include, among other actions, immediate realignment of training and education to Rwanda’s labour requirements.

The leaders identified Rwanda’s human capacity gap and its impact on economic growth as a major impediment to delivery, which is top on the agenda of the week-long event that is being chaired by President Kagame.

“A skilled workforce is a critical component of attracting foreign investment and building domestic businesses - just as we need funding, you need suitable labour,” said Dr David Himbara, Principal Private Secretary to the President.

He added: “Therefore this is a determined drive to systematically address a missing link by continuously reviewing what Rwanda needs in terms of the right mix of quality and quantity of skills in relation to our development vision.”[more]http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?issue=13811&article=13486

Happy Birthday Jk Proudly African.

Happy Birthday  JkProudlyAfrican- One Year now

It is my pleasure to thank you all for visiting  #JkProudlyAfrican blog. Since last year, 18th February 2008.
Thank you for viewing and sharing your comments.
#JkProudlyAfrican wish you all the best in 2009
Thank you
God Bless you

Miss World 2008 Kseniya Sukhinova

Mrembo wa Russia Kseniya Sukhinova(21), anayesomea degree ya u'engineer atwaa taji la Miss World 2008 huko Johannesburg, South Africa mashindano alipofanyika.jmosi iliyopita

Miss Russia now Miss World (centre), first runner up Miss India Parvathy Omanakuttan (left) and second runner up was Miss Trinidad & Tobago Gabriel Walcott (right).

President Kagame handing Christmas gifts to children.

President Paul Kagame yesterday afternoon threw the traditional annual Christmas party for children from all parts of the country, at Urugwiro Village.
During the colourful party, the President together with the First Lady, Jeanette Kagame, handed well-wrapped gifts to the jubilant children. Each child received a school bag, English or mathematics text book a mathematical sets as well as an English story book.
The President advised the over 100 children to be disciplined in all aspects of their lives saying they were tomorrow’s leaders.

“For Rwanda to be a good, developed and peaceful country, it depends on you,” he said.
He called upon them to be disciplined in obeying and respecting their parents and teachers. He further urged the children to value cleanliness, studying, doing sports and working in order to be better future leaders.

“Leadership starts when you are still young not when you have grown up. This festive season is important because it is a time to remind you that you are tomorrow’s leaders,” Kagame said.
Most importantly he told children to take care of their health by staying clean in order to avoid diseases, adding that cleanliness is very important for children as it will make them stay healthy.
Each of the thirty districts in the country was represented by three children who were escorted by their parents and some teachers, to the Christmas party celebrations.
They also interacted with members of the Unity Club which groups together all senior government leaders and is headed by the First Lady.

Claudia ajinyakulia taji la Miss East Africa

Miss East Africa Claudia Nuyimana(Burundi) akivishwa taji

Miss East Africa Claudia Nuyimana wa Burundi na Mtanzania Annete Mwakaguo (kushoto) aliyechukua ushindi wa pili na mshindi wa tatu Anais Veerapatren wa Mauritius baada yakutangazwa

Ma miss kwenye pozi

Laura Grenouille na Cinderela Sanyu

Top 5 ya Miss East Africa

Warembo wa Miss East Africa kabla ya shindano hiyo jana

ma miss katika pozi jana mjini Bujumbura

kushoto ni kati ya mwakilishi wa Burundi na kati kati na mwezake ni wakilishi wa Rwanda kwenye Miss East Africa

Ma miss wakijiachia

40 days passed since Rose Kabuye was arrested in Germany

Don't give up to fight for justice!!!

Notorious ‘Mr Zed’ sentenced to 20 years in jail

Protais Zigiranyirazo aka Mr.Zed

ARUSHA - The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) yesterday sentenced Protais Zigiranyirazo, also known as ‘Mr Zed’, to twenty years in jail on two counts of Genocide and extermination.

Zigiranyirazo, a brother-in-law of former President Habyarimana, had been charged with five counts that included; conspiracy to commit Genocide, Genocide, complicity in Genocide, extermination as a crime against humanity and murder as a crime against humanity.
Of all the five counts, in the chamber that was presided over by judge Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca, it only found the accused guilty of two counts; Genocide and extermination.

According to, the judgment, the Trial Chamber II found the accused guilty of having participated in a joint criminal enterprise with a common purpose of committing Genocide and extermination as well as aiding and abetting Genocide.
The judge further read that the accused arrived at Kesho hill in the Western Province on the morning of April 8, 1994, as part of a convoy of assailants and delivered a speech to the assailants who subsequently killed between 800 and 1500 Tutsis.

“The chamber considers that the circumstances of the attack, including, among other factors, the coordinated manner in which the better-armed reinforcements arrived, the large number of assailants, and the support of authority figures, show a common plan to kill the Tutsis at Kesho Hill, and that the accused’s actions show that he shared this common purpose,” Weinberg de Roca read from the judgment.

However, the chamber dismissed prosecution charges that the accused was involved in the killing of the three gendarmes and one Stanislas Sinibagiwe.
The chamber thus concluded that there are no mitigating factors that could be taken into account in the determination of the sentence.
Clad in a cream suit, Zigiranyirazo was called by the judge to the witness box from where he was handed the sentence.[more]http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?issue=13749&article=11853

Genocide mastermind convicted

Bagosora Theoneste aka genocide planner

ICTR gives life sentence to Bagosora, acquits Gen. Kabiligi

ARUSHA - The much awaited verdict in the widely publicised Military I trial was rendered yesterday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania.
The verdict handed down by Judge Eric Möse, sentenced the former Director of Cabinet in the Ministry of Defence, Col. Theoneste Bagosora, and two other former senior Rwandan military officers to life imprisonment.
The trial chamber however acquitted former director of operations in the former armed forces (Ex-FAR), a decision that has been contested by the Rwandan Government.
The two other members of the Ex-Far who were sentenced to life in jail are Major Alloys Ntabakuze, former commander of the elite Para Commando battalion and Lieutenant Colonel Anatole Nsengiyumva who was the commander of the military operation sector of Gisenyi. They were convicted in a joint trial for Genocide, Crimes against Humanity and War crimes.
The UN court however acquitted Kabiligi, the former head of the military operations (G-3) after it found him not guilty of all the charges, and ordered his release.
The Prosecution had charged Kabiligi with participation in the distribution of weapons, meetings to plan the Genocide as well as a number of specific crimes many of which were related to roadblocks in the Kigali area.
Bagosora was found guilty of killing several politicians including former Prime Minister Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Joseph Kavaruganda, the President of the Constitutional court as well as Frederic Nzamurambaho, Landoald Ndasingwa and Faustin Rucogoza who were opposition party officials and ministers designate in a transition government that was in the offing. [more]http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?issue=13749&article=11854

H.E Paul Kagame with the Senate President Vincent Biruta and Speaker of the Parliament Rose Mukantabana at the National Dialogue Conference yesterday.



PARLIAMENT - President Paul Kagame yesterday morning emphatically urged Rwandans and country leaders to focus on how the nation’s development can be fast-tracked.
He said this at Parliament buildings in Kimihurura while opening the Sixth National Dialogue Conference, a two-day event that brings together Rwandans, especially those in leadership positions, to discuss and share ideas on national issues, in particular how to solve current national problems.
Kagame stressed that he could not fail to remind the packed plenary room about the conference’s worth, and what is expected from it, in line with the aim of advancing the country.
“The country’s development is of paramount importance however much people might be different,” Kagame said, while underlining the importance of the meeting as a reminder to Rwandans of their common goal.
“What unites Rwandans and how they should fuse strengths to attain their common goal – the country’s development – should be the discussions’ outcome,” he pointed out, suggesting that differences such as in political ideology should not discourage efforts in that direction.
“We all want development however much our differences,” he said, giving the wider African continent as an example.
“With all its different countries, cultures and many other differences like religion, all of Africa wants development,” said the President.
While discussing issues, President Kagame emphasised that participants should come back to the central question – how can we speed up development?
He, however, also returned to one troubling thing, of which if a remedy was found fast, would be very beneficial – the continuous dependency on foreign aid.
“We should discuss and go back to this issue in all our deliberations,” he said, putting questions to the assembly – “How will we, how will Rwandans fare when this aid given to us by others stops coming?”[more]http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?issue=13749&article=11851

Tangazo la Msiba

Familia ya Mzee Anania Bizima inasikitika kuwatangazi ndugu,jamaa na marafiki kifo cha mwanae Lydia Yessaya,kilicho tokea usiku wa kuamkia ijumaa katika hospital ya Lugalo,Dar es Salaam.

Mazishi yatafanyika kesho jumamosi katika makaburi ya Kinondoni.

Mungu ailaze roho ya marehemu mahali pema peponi Amen.

Blog hii inaungana na familia ya marehemu wakati huu mgumu wa majonzi. Mungu azidi kuwatia nguvu.

Marehemu ni mama mdogo. RIP beloved Aunt.

Viatu ni noma siku hizi!!!

Miss East Africa leo-Bujumbura

Mkurugenzi wa Kampuni ya Rena Events inayoaandaashindano la Miss East Africa, Rena Callist (kushoto) akiwa na Mhariri wa Gazeti laBingwa, Petter Mwendapole (kulia) na wawakilishi wa Tanzania katikashindano hilo, Anette Mwakaguo (nyuma kushoto) na Lynnete Lwakatarewakiwasili kwenye Uwanja wa ndege wa Kimataifa wa Bujumbura.

Mwakilishi wa Tanzania, Lynnete Lwakatare akihojiwa na waandishiwa habari.

Baadhi ya washiriki wa shindano la Miss East Africa wakiwa katika vazi la ufukweni

Baadhi ya washiriki wa Miss East Africa wakiwa mazoezini tayari kwa fainali zitakazofanyika leo.

Annet john na kushoto akiwa na mratibu wa miss East Africa Burundi, Serge Nkurunziza na Lynette Rwakatare.

Miss East Africa itafanyika jioni hii mjini Bujumbura,Burundi

Sakata la Viatu Iraq

Rais Bush kiwa anachungulia baada ya kukwepa viatu viwili Iraq

Waziri Mkuu wa Iraq akikinga mkono kumnusuru Bush kiatu cha pili

Mwandishi wa Muntazer al-Zaidi Tv binafsi yaal-Baghdadiya akiachia kombora la kiatu kuelekea kwa Rais Bush

Bush akikwepa kiatu cha kwanza

Pokea kwanza kiatu

Kabla ya mwandishi kuanza mashambulizi dhidi ya Rais Bush

Hii iwe fundisho kwa maprezo wengine kwamba wajue silaha zipo aina nyingi tu inaweza kuwa rahisi kuwagandamiza vibaya sana!!!!

Shaggy kuwasha moto Kigali leo

Shaggy


After Sean Paul show last weekend hapa Kigali sasa leo Shaggy anawalusha wana Kigali. Shaggy yupo Kigali kwa ajili ya kuadhimisha Miaka Kumi ya Mtn Rwandacell. Leo jioni Kwenye viwanja vya amahoro kutakua na show kubwa sana itakayo pambwa na wasani kutoka East Africa kama Peter Miles na pia na wasani wa Rwanda watapamba show hiyo. come and enjoy Shaggy and other artists music.

Viingilio ni kama ifatavyo:

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10000 Rwf seat za kawaida

2000 Rwf seat za .............


Muze mwese twirigate au vipi!!!

Obama says he won't be smoking in White House

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama failed to give a straight answer when asked on a U.S. talkshow on Sunday whether he had managed to quit smoking.
In a country where cigarettes are responsible for one in five deaths and smoking costs tens of billions of dollars in health care, Obama has been under pressure to set an example by giving up his reported two-decade-old habit.
Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" program, interviewer Tom Brokaw told Obama he had ducked answering the question during an interview last month with ABC's Barbara Walters.
Noting that the White House was a no-smoking zone, Brokaw asked Obama, "Have you stopped smoking?"
"I have," Obama replied, smiling broadly. "What I said was that there are times where I have fallen off the wagon."
"Wait a minute," Brokaw interjected, "that means you haven't stopped."

Free Rose Kabuye leo-Pretoria

H.E. Paul Kagame akiwa pamoja na mkuu wa itifaki Rose Kabuye

Rose Kabuye.

Leo hii katika jiji la Pretoria-South Africa wanyarwanda na watetea haki kutoka Africa wamefanya maandamano ya amani kwenye ubalozi wa Ufaransa(French Embassy) . waandamanaji wameweza kutoa ujumbe na Offier mkuu katika ubalozi wa Ufaransa amepoke madai hayo na kusema atayawakilisha kwa Balozi wake.

Hii inatokana na kwamba Ufaransa inazidi kunyanyasa Rwanda,baada ya tukio la kumkamata Rose Kabuye akiwa katika ziala ya kazi nchi Germany na kupelekwa Paris analipo pata rufaa.

France inazidi kupotosha ukweli wamambo kuhusu mchngo wao katika mauaji ya kimbali(Genocide) ya 1994. France ilishilikiana bega kwa bega na wauwaji sasa wanataka kubadilisha jina hilo kwa kuform case isiyo ya kweli dhidi ya viongozi wa Rwanda. Genocide iliandaliwa na kutekelezwa na walio ianda sio kama inavyo semwa na wafaransa kwamba chazo ni kulipuliwa kwa ndege iliyo ikimsafilisha Rais wa zamani wa Rwanda J.Habyarimana.

Na madai ya kwamba wapiganaji wa APR ndio walio dungua ndege hiyo sio ya kweli.

Blog hii inaungana na waandamanaji wote wanaotetea haki za Rwanda na Africa kupinga kukamatwa kwa Rose Kabuye na kuendelea kutoa shikizo la kuachiliwa huru Rose Kabuye.

Mungu Ibariki Africa

Obama may have to give up his beloved BlackBerry

Prezo wa USA Obama akiwa analonga

The Mr Prezo Hapa anachungulia sms or email kama kawaida yake

WASHINGTON – Before he ran for president Barack Obama quit smoking. Now that he's won the job, he may have to break another addiction: Checking his BlackBerry for e-mail.
The president's e-mail can be subpoenaed by Congress and courts and may be subject to public records laws, so if a president doesn't want his e-mail public, he shouldn't e-mail, experts said. And there may be security issues about carrying around trackable cell phones.
Obama transition officials haven't made a decision on what the new president will or will not carry, but those who have been there say it's unlikely he'll carry his BlackBerry and he may be in for some withdrawal pains.

"Definitely he's going to feel an electronic detoxing," said Reed Dickens, former assistant press secretary to President George W. Bush. Dickens jokes that he personally is so addicted to his BlackBerry that he checks his device before opening his right eye.
President-elect Obama has often been seen avidly checking his e-mail on his handheld equipment. This past summer, news cameras recorded him checking his BlackBerry while watching his daughter's soccer game, only to have Michelle Obama slap at his hands, prompting him to return the device to its holster.
Actress Scarlett Johansson said she has had frequent e-mail exchanges with him during his campaign travels, something the Obama campaign downplayed.

"This is a decision President-elect Obama will have to face," said former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan, who added that Obama's legal advisers will probably recommend against an e-mailing president.
"While he has pledged an open and transparent government, I doubt the president-elect is interested in subjecting his own personal communications to that standard," McClellan wrote in an e-mail interview. He added, "He will have to think very hard about whether he wants to make his own words that subject to open records by having his own e-mail and his own BlackBerry."
There is presidential precedent for an e-mail blackout. Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton didn't e-mail while in office.

"It's all discoverable; it creates a trail that might end up in congressional investigators' hands," said Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry. If you want to delete White House e-mail, you get a stern warning about archiving presidential records, he said.
A few days before Bush took office in 2001, he sent an e-mail to a few dozen close friends saying he would no longer use e-mail: "Since I do not want my private conversations looked at by those out to embarrass, the only course of action is not to correspond in cyberspace. This saddens me."
Bush was unhappy about losing his e-mail and mostly used the phone to talk to friends, McClellan wrote, adding, "I am sure the president looks forward to being able to communicate with them via e-mail again come January 20, 2009."
The Bush White House has been battling courts about lapses in e-mail archives at the White House.
Before 2001, Bush was an active e-mailer, but that was before the now ubiquitous BlackBerry with e-mail and text message functions was released in 2002. Users who constantly check their devices often call themselves crackberry addicts. A Canadian government agency asked its workers to live by a "BlackBerry blackout" on nights and weekends "in order to achieve work/life quality here."

"I think Obama is the first president who is addicted to the BlackBerry like the rest of us, and there's a lot of presidential records and archive rules on what gets stored and what doesn't," said former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart.
Quitting BlackBerry use is not something some political types — such as McClellan — or tech-geeks like thinking about.
Benjamin Nugent, author of the book "American Nerd," said the president-elect is such a techie and has nerd qualities. So cutting off the BlackBerry could be painful: "It'll be interesting if we could see the torment on his face. For me it would be hell."
But it actually could be good for the president-elect, said psychology professor Lawrence Welkowitz of Keene State University in New Hampshire.

"It might be a completely freeing thing for him, so that he can free himself to think and act," said Welkowitz, who doesn't carry a BlackBerry.
But even if Obama isn't packing a BlackBerry or cell phone, he'll have plenty of aides within arm's reach who do, experts said. Often a president uses the equipment of personal assistants.
And there is the chance that Obama may buck the past and keep his BlackBerry tethered to his belt.

"He's the president," McCurry said. "If he wants to carry the BlackBerry, he's entitled."
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On the Net:
A video of Obama using his BlackBerry while watching his daughter's cell phone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?vHzM6XCisBcI