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Philip Ochieng [Photo: Courtesy]
The story of Kenyan journalism will remain incomplete without a narrative on Philip Ochieng who died on April 27, aged 83.
Ochieng, who will be buried today, ranked among the elite journalists who left an indelible mark on the country’s media landscape.
Should one day the idea of a journalism hall of fame come to fruition, PO, as he was fondly known, would certainly feature alongside renowned Kenyan editors such as Boaz Omori, George Githii, Hilary Ng’weno, Joe Rodrigues, Henry Gathigira and George Mbugguss.
But Ochieng will be remembered more as a bridge that linked this pioneer generation to the mid-stream professionals he worked with through the one-party State and “second liberation” era. He also authored two books,
Philip Ochieng – who has died at the age of 83 – was a celebrated Kenyan editor, author and hard-hitting columnist who made his mark across East Africa. He was an East African par excellence who counted former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa and revered Ugandan academic Mahmood Mamdani among his circle of friends.
Ochieng began his journalism career in 1966 when he joined the Nairobi-based Nation newspaper group, which was then only a few years old, at the invitation of then editor-in-chief George Githii. Within a year he was entrusted with a regular column debating the social, political and economic issues of a country that had gained independence from Britain only a few years earlier in 1963.
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.