Kenya
Jambo. Hii ni hadithi yetu.
Our language is an official language of Parliament. The news signs. By law.
Access on this page: Signed: Kenyan Sign Language — pending How this page is tested
Kenya's 2010 Constitution did two things almost no constitution has. Article 7 tells the State to promote Kenyan Sign Language. Article 120 makes it an official language of Parliament, beside Kiswahili and English. Then the broadcast regulator made it real on screen: from 1 July 2016 the Programming Code required 100% signing on news, national events and emergencies, and every major station hired interpreters within the year. On 27 May 2025 a new Persons with Disabilities Act came into force: every public and private institution shall accept and facilitate KSL, and KSL courses go into every learning institution. The law is ours. The news is delivered. Everything else comes next.
KSL video — this story, in our language
A named Kenyan Deaf creator tells this page's story in KSL. The video is the page, and the text is its transcript's cousin. This video existing is the reason this page is allowed to exist.
The news already signs. The law already says the rest.
Now we deliver the rest — ourselves.
What do you want to do?
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I want access
Watch.Understand.Belong.
Films, classrooms, and services — in KSL, captions, or audio description.
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I create access
Create.Get paid.Be seen.
Deaf signers, interpreters, captioners, audio describers — your work, your name, your income.
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I provide access
One API.Every screen.
Platforms, governments, cinemas, companies — deliver real access with one integration.
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I back access
Host.Sponsor.Invest.
The builders who will take a signed bulletin and make it a signed country — be part of the firsts.
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More than one of these can be yours. The access is for you, and you can be paid to help make it.
Access in Kenya today
The law now says:
KSL is an official language of Parliament — Article 120 — and the State shall promote it — Article 7(3)(b), since 2010. All news, national events and emergency announcements are signed — Programming Code, enforced since 1 July 2016. Public and private institutions shall accept and facilitate KSL, and every learning institution teaches it — Persons with Disabilities Act 2025, in force 27 May 2025.
And we know the exhausting part: an Act signed in May 2025 needs a budget line to become a classroom, and a bulletin is one hour of the day. The film, the clinic, the bank — the rest of the country's screens — carry no interpreter yet.
Kenya proved the thesis: write the law, and the news signs. The rest comes next — made by us. That is what ally is: Deaf and blind creators, paid to make the access — KSL, captions, audio description — delivered to any screen.
In plain words
The law is on your side. What is missing is the service — and that is what gets built here, with the community.
Why captions alone are not enough → Why sign language
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