May 1st 2021 at 07:00:00 GMT +0300
Writing the story of Philip Ochieng’ Otani is like giving a journey into the media in Kenya. In a casual encounter in the streets of Nairobi, one would always see him with a book. He never walked without something to read, be it a magazine or book.
His death on 27th April has elicited lots of reactions from newspaper readers and general consumers of journalistic material in general. Ochieng’s pen shaped the written word in many media experiences and several journalists owe it to his tutelage.
The country is now full of his orphans because his network spread across various media organizations.