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ProfilesFauzia Komora – Tragic End for Young Kenyan Journalist
Beaming with enthusiasm, 28 year old Fauzia Komora was a budding journalist who couldn’t wait to bring her newly-learnt skills to her radio stories. A trainee from Pwani FM on the Kenyan Coastal city Mombasa, Fauzia, was among 7 radio trainees of the Internews radio workshop held at the end of February. The theme was the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (of HIV). The training ended on a sad note when trainers got a call on the last day to say that Fauzia had died suddenly. The mother of three was preparing food for her sister’s wedding the next day when she died of an electric shock in her home. She had accidentally touched a live wire. Relatives who arrived early for the wedding on Saturday instead went to lay Fauzia’s remains to rest. She was a Muslim and as the Islamic faith demands, she had to be buried immediately. All her fellow trainees cut short their training schedule by half a day to bid their colleague farewell. Fauzia had proved to be a star trainee – she seemed to grasp the idea of recording sound effects coupled with spontaneous on the spot recording. Internews in Nairobi will produce a programme with the material she recorded in an effort to fulfill her dream of producing a special feature for the women’s program at her station. Fauzia will be remembered for being outgoing, friendly and generous. And as if she had a premonition of departing, she was in very high spirits as she bade the trainers goodbye. She regretted that we would not make to her sister’s wedding - which unfortunately was not to be. She leaves behind a husband, and three children aged 3, months, 6 and 7 years respectively. |
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