A newsroom and a studio, open to students
Royal FM broadcasts to Kigali on 94.3 MHz and streams worldwide. Its schedule mixes live morning and drive-time shows, a weekly Top 20 countdown, Rwandan and pan-African music, and Sunday current-affairs discussion.
For Mount Kigali University, the station is a teaching asset. Students in the School of Computing, Informatics and Media Studies can see professional presenting, production, scheduling and newsroom practice at close range, the skills that classroom work alone cannot give.
The station is independently run and commercially funded. Its partners include Bank of Kigali, MTN, Airtel, Bralirwa, Coca-Cola and Mount Kigali University.
Professor Kabaji’s academic work is characterised by its deep engagement with African cultural identity and its unflinching commitment to the idea that literature and the arts are not peripheral to development, they are central to it. His research has explored oral narrative traditions, performance poetry, the sociology of African literature, and the relationship between culture and political consciousness.
He is widely regarded as one of Kenya’s foremost literary communicators, a scholar who does not merely publish in journals, but who brings ideas to life in classrooms, on public platforms, and through his prolific writing career.
94.3 MHz FM
Kigali, plus global streaming
The Heartbeat of Kigali
2015 (commercial licence)
A newsroom and a studio, open to students
2010
The spark
One room, one microphone. The station starts as a university radio, built to give local voices a platform.
2015
First commercial broadcast
Royal FM reaches the airwaves across Kigali as a licensed commercial station.
2018
Going digital
Royal Digital launches, adding podcasts, live streaming and social engagement to the broadcast signal.
Today
A global voice
Rwandan stories reach listeners across continents, with the student pipeline still feeding the studio.
2010
The spark
One room, one microphone. The station starts as a university radio, built to give local voices a platform.
2015
First commercial broadcast
Royal FM reaches the airwaves across Kigali as a licensed commercial station.
2018
Going digital
Royal Digital launches, adding podcasts, live streaming and social engagement to the broadcast signal.
Today
A global voice
Rwandan stories reach listeners across continents, with the student pipeline still feeding the studio.
Getting involved
Presenting and production
Students interested in on-air or studio production work can register their interest through the School of Computing, Informatics and Media Studies.
Newsroom and reporting
Journalism students can follow the station’s news desk at news.royalfm.rw to see how daily stories are sourced, written and aired.
Campus coverage
University events, research and student achievement are pitched to the station through the MKU communications office.
Presenting and production
Students interested in on-air or studio production work can register their interest through the School of Computing, Informatics and Media Studies.
Newsroom and reporting
Journalism students can follow the station’s news desk at news.royalfm.rw to see how daily stories are sourced, written and aired.
Campus coverage
University events, research and student achievement are pitched to the station through the MKU communications office.
94.3 FM in Kigali. Everywhere else, online.
Listen live on the station’s stream, follow the weekly chart, or catch up with the news desk.