Jackson Okata

Jackson Okata is a multiple award-winning journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. Jackson boasts of experience in both broadcast, print and online journalism spanning over 8 years. Jackson specializes in agriculture, environment, women and gender, political and governance, tech and innovation, science as well as education stories. Jackson is a fellow of Health Journalism Network, Earth Journalism Network, Internews, Journalists for Human Rights, Africa Centre for Media Excellence (ACME), LIDA Network, YALI Network and Thomson Reuters Foundation

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This artwork features three figures before a large gate with a lush landscape beyond. The central figure, shirtless and in light pants, gazes through the gate, flanked by two figures in half-colored coats bearing Kenya's national colors. Faded text in the background reads "Title Deed," evoking themes of land ownership and access barriers.
“We might be forced out of here”: Long stateless, Kenya’s Pemba people now fight for their ancestral land
Kenyan woman standing in a surreal underwater landscape surrounded by fishes.
Women fishmongers in Kenya have had little choice in the widespread sex for fish culture. Until now
A seedling in a cage against an abstract background colored in Kenya's national colors red, green and black. This background also contains excerpts of a petition against smallholder farmers superimposed with an image of a field.

“Farming is not a crime”: Kenya’s smallholder farmers are challenging a law preventing them from sharing Indigenous seeds

Kisiria Forest, Kenya - Maasai women belonging to a women traditional group work on the community tree nursery. Photo Credit © FAO/Luis Tato
“We paid the price”: How a voluntary forest restoration in Kenya ended a decades long security problem