Edward Mwasi's steady rise from a graphic designer to CEO Kenya Yearbook Editorial Board

Edward Mwasi spoke to MIKE KIHAKI about the old days and producing books on the Kenyatta, Moi and Uhuru Cabinets and why Moi's funeral programme was his biggest challenge.

You were chief graphic designer of a leading media house. How was the newsroom like when you joined?
I joined the media in 1994 when technology in newspaper packaging was quite basic, with most of the work done on the manual platform then referred to as page paste-up. The production room was like a workshop smelling of candle wax which was used as glue in the assembly of the text gallies onto a paste-up sheet. Coming from an advertising agency where software utilisation was a little more advanced, it really puzzled me, at first!