FLORENCE KERR WILSON
Pioneer Aviatrix who Founded The First Airline in East Africa Forget the clifftop landings, the exclusive coral reef island landings or even the spectacular beach landings at Sint Maarten in the Caribbean.

EMMA GAMA PINTO
Jacaranda’s Joy: The Purple Lining In Her Winter of Despair & The Country That Turned Her Back On Her Children Young Emma Christine Dias patiently waited for the man from Suswa Road.

MBILIA BEL
The Belle of Africa’s Ball

When Nairobi was declared a city in 1950, the colonial government could not have imagined that it would be the voice of a Congolese that would carry the ‘Green City In The Sun’s’ hopes and aspirations from the 20th into the 21st century. The name of the voice is Mbilia Bel.

ANNA MWALE
Musical Harmony Ex-e-cuted to Perfection

As children growing up in cosmopolitan Nairobi, we had to find every excuse and make the adults (parents, uncles, aunts and neighbors) play ‘Ex-E-Cuse Me Mama Mwale’ every weekend when they were off from work. So, on a Saturday morning like today, we’d be jamming to ‘Ex-E-Cuse Me’ with wanton abandon; with the gramophone’s needle turning in the background.

CATHERINE KASAVULI
Catherine, The Great Communicator

Catherine the Great made some major conquests as Queen but Catherine Kasavuli, without doubt the Queen of Broadcast Journalism in Kenya, made even Greater conquests in broadcasting as a communicator of the English Language. Catherine the Great was a Prussian Princess, after all.

ELIZABETH OMOLLO
Kenya’s Radio Teacher: Our Airwaves Auntie

‘Hello Children’ with Aunt Easy Lizzy

@KBCChannel1 @CatherineNdonye @bennetowuonda HYNIE THE LAUGHING HYENA

🎶I’m hynie the laughing hyena🎶
I’m laughing all day long (huhuhuhu)
because when I kick all my troubles they wiggle awaaay where theeey belong
(other voices) He’s happy no matter what happens
when singing his happy song

MULENGA KAPWEPWE
Zambia’s Patron of the Arts.

Mulenga Kapwepwe is almost like a walking library; a granary of African cultural idioms, expressions and a repository of Zambia’s cultural DNA. She’s been described as Zambia’s patron of the arts by CNN. It’s not an exaggeration. Mulenga was just 6 years old when her country regained independence from the British. Then, like the flow of the mighty Zambezi River, the conversations started streaming in. What are we going to call the currency? What name should we call the country? What about the flag?

LABDI OMMES
Daughter of the Nile

Daughter of the Nile conjures up memories of an old Michael Douglas movie, the ‘Jewel of the Nile.’ Together with Kathleen Turner, Douglas goes into an adventure-filled excursion in an African desert in search of the fabled “Jewel of the Nile.” Adventurous, nonconformist, passionate. What the Hollywood movie magic did to us as kids was simply magical.

KASIVA MUTUA
Me & My Drum, Telling my Story
If you’re having a bad day, listening to Kasiva’s drums might just be what the doctor ordered. It’ll perk you up. You will agree that drums do indeed create their own ecosystem. It’s almost like that one experience with Bose speakers’ 360o surround system. When Kasiva plays, the beauty ultimately lies in the eyes-and ears of the beholder. The happiness, the glee, the mirth. The gaiety.