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Curtain comes down on Kenyan drama scholar Wasambo Were

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Kenyatta University Theatre and Drama Specialist Dr Wasambo Were. [File, Standard]

Wasambo Were, who only retired from his teaching position at Kenyatta University in June last year, has died aged 78.

Dr Wasambo died at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University Hospital in Kisumu of stroke, according to family and colleagues.

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