Thursday 8 August 2013

NINE THINGS YOU DINT KNOW ABOUT KENYAN CELEBRATED TV ANCHOR LARRY MADOWO, as a City Hustler.



1.CAME to Nairobi for the fisrt time in early 2000s.

2.For years worked at her aunt’s food kiosk in the sprawling Gikomba market selling Uji and other food stuffs to hawkers.

3.Worked as a temporary sales person with a  tooth paste manufacturing company CLOSE-UP and was deployed at Uchumi Supermarket Mombasa Road branch.

4.His initial  interest was in print journalism but diverted to electronic media when he landed an intership with KTN as a business reporter.

5.His  first article (entertainment piece ) was rejected by the defunct, The Leader Weekly  newspaper owned by Royal Media Services.

6.At somepoint in the year 2005 together with another journalist Jared Opiyo mooted a plan of starting a monthly newspaper which was to be named THE CLASSIC MONTHLY, but the plan flooped at its advanced stage due to financial constraints.
Later on, he joined Dayster University to start his journalism studies while Jared Opiyo was absorbed by Royal Media Services as the first Siaya based Radio Ramogi Reporter.

7.He is a stuanch christian and born again.

8.Went to St. Gabriel’s Seminary School In Kisumu where he developed an ambition to become a Catholic priest.

9.Developed reading culture in his childhood days and would in most cases unwrap the meat and read the old newspaper whenever he was sent to the butchery.


 ''FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS COME GREAT THINGS''-author Unknown.

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