Jack Of All Trades?Jeff Koinange’s Play Wins The Kenya Drama Festival.

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Feted Journalist,Jeff Koinange

Being a celebrity in this age of keyboard-happy Twitter trolls and clickbait bloggers is a constant struggle. Just ask our Kenyan celebrities and public figures who are constantly warding off KOT or waking up to controversial headlines. Now step outside that world and take a peek into the other side of being a celebrity, which the media seldom tells you about.

Jeff Koinange

Here’s the man that stands as one of the continent’s most iconic journalists, a man who is proving to have great adaptability for radio, and a man who remains a passionate lover of country music – Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley’s, “Whiskey Lullaby,” being one of his all-time favourites.

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Jeff has also found himself in messes and scandals. The Kenya media watchdog once threatened to take unspecified action against TV host Jeff Koinange and Citizen TV for alleged unethical conduct .

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Jeff Koinange with colleague Victor Rubadiri

Jeff is a good writer ,apart from his autobiography hile in high school, he wrote a play – It’s Only a Matter of Time – based on Steve Biko’s life. It won first place at the Kenya Drama Festival.

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Jeff Koinange’s book-Autobiography
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Africa’s political Legend,Steve Biko.

Jeff Koinange has the voice of the gods, a man so renowned for his voice that he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story for his 2005 coverage of the famine in Niger.

Jeff Koinange while working in Niger

When Jeff is not fighting off haters on Twitter (because team KOT doesn’t sleep), Jeff hosts his show Jeff Koinange Live on Citizen TV and a morning radio show with Prof. Hamo on HOT 96.

Jeff and Prof Hamo

Jeff was the valedictorian at Kingsborough Community College, with a 4.0 GPA, before he was awarded a scholarship to NYU.

Jeff is clearly Jack of all trades and oes everything almost to perfection!

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