Veteran media personality and musician
in Kenya Jacob William Maunda who died on August 17 was buried at his home in
Makueni County on Wednesday, August 29.
His burial was attended by among others his boss who is also
the Chairman of the Royal Media Services and Media Mogul in Kenya
Mr.S.K.Macharia, family, friends, relatives and colleagues among them ace
broadcaster Fred Obachi Machoka.
He was a songwriter and labeled himself as soloist
international. He was 62 years old by the time of his death.
He once worked at the state run media Kenya Broadcasting
Corporation (KBC) with the likes of other veterans like Leonard Mambo Mbotela,
Khamis Themor, Khadijah Ali Mohamed Juma Njuguna, the late Anne Ofula, John
Obongo Junior and Anunda Sakwa among others.
He retired in 2001 from
the station at the age of 50 to concentrate fully on music.
Maunder also had a short stint as a lecturer at the
Kenya Institute of Mass Communication ( KIMC) in 2004, before quitting to join Mbaitu FM, a Kamba vernacular radio station. He was to leave the station for yet another Kamba
station, Musyi FM - a vernacular radio station of Royal Media
Services, as senior news anchor, editor and
head of news department.”
He claimed that music to him was equal
to journalism. Through music, he was able to communicate to society in the
same manner he did as a journalist.
Meanwhile veteran Politician credited among others who helped in the restoration of multi-party democracy in Kenya the late Martin Joseph Shikuku who died recently will be buried at his home in Western Kenya on Saturday,September 01.
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