How Aga Khan’s innovative spirit birthed The EastAfrican
From left: Prime Minister Raila Odinga, His Highness the Aga Khan, President Mwai Kibaki (Kenya - deceased), President Paul Kagame (Rwanda) and former President Benjamin Mkapa (Tanzania) after the opening of the Pan-African Media Conference and 50th Anniversary Celebrations of the Nation Media Group at KICC, Nairobi.
With the launch of The EastAfrican in 1994, a long-standing ambition of the Aga Khan as a regional investor finally came to pass.
My entry into the project as the newspaper’s founding editor exposed me to His Highness’s far-sighted dream of journalism and media as a catalyst for change in the developing world.
