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Kelly Ogome

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Kelly Ogome is a multimedia journalist covering stories from Uganda, Kenya & the great lakes region.

ogome13@gmail.com Email

July 22, 2021 Date joined · 15 stories

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Education Jan 28, 2023

Woman quits lucrative career to make tech labs in Kenya, named CNN Hero of the Year

I got to make sure that nobody in my village ever went to sleep hungry. To contribute, even in...

7 min read

Environment Jan 7, 2023

After hearing her daughter’s screams, young mother develops safer cooking tools for Kenya’s slums

I was terrified and could feel my heart beating out of my chest. I never anticipated my own...

7 min read

Careers Nov 30, 2021

From farm to courtroom: meet Kenya’s first female chief justice

All of these achievements have come because of, not in spite of, my rural upbringing. Those tough lessons...

7 min read

Crime & Corruption Nov 16, 2021

Former grave robber recounts shootout that led to reform

Our target was not the poor, who are buried like dead animals covered with soil. We liked the...

7 min read

Uncategorized Oct 20, 2021

Rape, poverty plague Kenyan street families

A chokoraa like me cannot report a rape case and have it followed up, like people with stable...

7 min read

Arts & Culture Sep 17, 2021

Kenya’s top journalist works as a mortician while covering the news

He's a newsroom mortician where the stories are deadly and funerals are feared.

7 min read

Crime & Corruption Aug 16, 2021

Somali woman saved from kidnappers in Kenya’s capital

Kidnapped Somalian woman rescued in Nairobi following five days of torture.

7 min read

Environment Jul 25, 2021

Gold mine collapse in Kenya killed my brothers

We mine pure gold and we are dying, not because we love mining, but because it is our...

7 min read

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