Nairobi News

TV queen Jamila Mohamed says one of the best things to ever happen to her life was getting married early.

The mother of five opened up on how she has managed to juggle between her demanding career, being a mother, a wife and an academician.

She observes that getting married early played a key role in her journey in the media profession as well furthering her studies.

“I’m a lucky to have gotten married early to a good person and I had my children quite early. I had all my five children before I was 30,” she opened up.

Having had her brood early doubled with the massive support from her husband, two combos made it a little bit easier for her to go back to school for her two post graduate Master’s degrees.

Jamila who hardly shared details of her family has been married to Ahmed Farah who has served as Country Manager of Trademark East Africa.

Farah, a certified auditor and public accountant, was recently appointed by President William Ruto to be a member of the National Investment Council.

He has also worked as a Director at Deloitte East Africa, as well as PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Jamila meanwhile has enjoyed a chequered journalism career in which she has anchored prime time news for close to two decades.

She has worked at both NTV and Citizen TV and is known for her ever smiling posture hijab attire.

Fluent in both Kiswahili and English, Jamila currently works as an news editor besides reading news.

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