Safaricom remembers Collymore – Kenyan Business Feed

Bob Collymore, the former Safaricom PLC CEO died suddenly a year ago, on 1st July 2019.

He is being remembered exactly one year later after he succumbed from Cancer, acute myeloid leukaemia- a rare kind of blood cancer that is curable.

His widow Wambui Collymore has over the past one year shared about her life and times with the Guyana-born business executive.

In a recent article by a local media house, Life after Bob Collymore, where she narrates he experience after the death of her husband.

“I lost my sense of smell. It returned a few months ago and then disappeared again. It’s back again; so it goes and comes,” she says.

She has complained about the lost sense of smell in March too.

Wambui also shared some intimate details about their life too.

“He used to say, ‘I don’t want to hang about. It’s like I’m done; don’t keep me around,” she says, clapping dramatically at “I’m done” to mimic one of Collymore’s signature gestures.

Bob Collymore Foundation

Wambui has launched a foundation in honor of her husband.

The foundation named after the trail-blazing Safaricom CEO will premier today, in the next 3 hours from now at 7 pm.

The foundation “exists to unlock creativity and transform lived by providing critical resources and inclusive program design in sustainable business, art and music”.

There’ll be a celebration of Bob Collymore’s life through music. Many have already gone to social media, especially Twitter to share memories of the late CEO.

Here are some of the tweets we sampled:

‘Boys’ club, Now

‘Boys’ Club then

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