Dennis Itumbi’s Journey To Success (Part II)
Back to Mbotela, life was great as we nursed dreams collectively, shared the sorrow and the dream jointly, all of us believing that the future held that promise for us in Nairobi and having no God Father to claim the space for us.
Fortunately, despite our challenges we laughed, we calmed each other, we dated and we lived the challenges as they came, getting the stamina everyday.
Sometimes we walked to town, other times one of us got a deal and we helped each other and by the way am talking of 2005-2007..just the other day.
I remember walking from Valley Arcade to town as we dropped CV’s and hoped to get a call from somewhere somehow.
We had three suits which we hanged collectively and used to attend interviews when they presented themselves.
It all paid off eventually, we got off to our careers, the struggle had prepared us for excellence.we bagged awards separately, we moved the ladder smoothly and we dreamt on.
The journey took me from People, to Baraka FM and to Voice of America. My friends one day will tell their story but so far each of them smiles on.
I will not say I am at the Destination, but I will say the journey has been awesome and sitting where I am today I can confidently say for those that dare to dream its possible.
Instead of just dropping CV’s drop them with a plan of how you intend to do your job, instead of waiting for a job register a business name its only 1,000 bob, or register a self help group it will cost you 600 bob and begin selling services.
There is space for each of us with a dream, you see swimming in the river as i grew up taught me that when the water washes you away dont just look to hold onto anything, instead be that something that can be held on. the lesson from the river was always keep floating and you will not drown,just make sure you are floating the challenges not withstanding.
Pick a pen and write down your dream, write one that is reliant on employment, but write one that is not reliant on employment. What is not written is fantasy.
In between the career growth i never let my talent die, I wrote plays and poems and trained many schools some to National level and that helped me make many friends and kept the real me going. Kenyan Theatre by the way is the next big thing.
I started blogging with a blog that was called Abunuwasi.com, I really loved it, I had discovered that Kenyans read only 20 % of what gets into a newsroom due to space constraints and started a place that would tell the stories that don’t hit the mainstream. I made no money with abunuwasi, but the feedback was great, my challenge was how to turn the feedback into a resource that would show in my account.
In my duties as a reporter, i met a lawyer, @Kamotho Waiganjo who told me he liked abunuwasi and challenged me to do something bigger and structured, he helped me register a company and he left me to think, literally left.
I will forever be greatful for what he did, I then started The Fountain News.co.ke, that was a great hit, not only did attract corprate business but it opened my eyes to a whole industry that was still 
virgin in utilization.
I tendered my resignation to VOA, a bold step, to concentrate on blogging, it was not making as much but I knew that was the answer.
A blog posting about Birds one time caught the attention of an International NGO and that was the beginning of serious blogging, journalism.co.za approached me to write about journalism, UNESCO made me their Mobile journalism consultant and within no time blogging had become a serious venture.
I will one day write teh rest of the story, but this was meant to encourage someone out there by saying yes there exists something like a Kenyan Dream, I have lived it and I know, there will be challenges and hurdles but it is there and you need no God Father you can be what you want to be by doing what you must and keeping your eyes on the goal.
Birthday thoughts. Hope someone out there is now energized to dream again.
God Bless. I dedicate this birthday to mentoring and inspiring people.
