Makutano Junction: A Village Soap Opera for Kenyan TV. An Interview with Producer and Mediae.org Director and Co-founder David Campbell

Makutano Junction is an "edutainment" soap opera made for local television stations in Kenya and other East African countries. The show is about a fictional peri-urban village and the people who live in it. The program is made in Kenya, but was devised and is produced by Mediae, a UK based...

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Published inArchitecture and culture Vol. 5; no. 1; p. 99
Main Authors Stringer, Ben, Campbell, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Taylor & Francis Ltd 01.03.2017
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Campbell, David
Education
Media
Soap operas
Television programming
Towns
Urbanization
Kenya
East Africa
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Summary:Makutano Junction is an "edutainment" soap opera made for local television stations in Kenya and other East African countries. The show is about a fictional peri-urban village and the people who live in it. The program is made in Kenya, but was devised and is produced by Mediae, a UK based company that works with the support and collaboration of some major Kenyan and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Mediae was founded by the producers David Campbell and Kate Lloyd Morgan. Since it began broadcasting in 2007 Makutano Junction has become one of the most popular shows on Kenyan TV; currently around 8 million viewers watch it every week, which is about 20 percent of the country's entire population. Campbell is interviewed.​
ISSN:2050-7828
2050-7836
DOI:10.1080/20507828.2017.1292754