KANGWANA DEAD

Veteran broadcaster and former Kenya Broadcasting Corporation's (KBC) board of directors chairman James Kangwana is dead.

Kangwana died Tuesday night at the Lang'ata hospital in Nairobi aged 75.

The veteran broadcaster started his career at the British Broadcasting Corporation-BBC London in the early 1960s.

He later served as the director of broadcasting at the then Voice of Kenya (currently KBC) between 1971 and 1980.

He was also a director at the ministry of Culture and Social Services between 1980 and 1982 and the director of Communications of the All Africa Conference of Churches until 1986.

Previously, Kangwana worked as a district officer in Keroka in Kisii and as a headmaster of Bakistani Primary School in Mombasa.