Giant who recalibrated journalism, started a media empire

Former President Daniel Arap Moi and Hilary Ng’weno (left). [File]

How can one man be so many things and impact so many lives? Science and art do not mix, ideally. Journalism and fiction too are like water and oil but in the world of Hilary Ng’weno, this was possible, just like many other experiments and miracles he performed.  

From shaping opinions of millions of his readers to exposing politicians for what they really are, Ng’weno was one of the few people who read and perhaps subconsciously edited what people thought about him three years before he died. When he hit 80, his friends and relatives decided to celebrate him in a special way by penning tributes so that the journalist could understand how people viewed him and his work.