Kenyan actor based in Hollywood is dead. According to reports, Odera Owiso (pictured) collapsed while rehearsing on stage in Kentucky, USA. The Hollywood actor had flown from Los Angeles Santa Monica where he lives.
Efforts to resuscitate him failed and he was pronounced dead a few minutes later. Owiso had spent the first week of October acting on location in Washington DC in a new stage work entitled Measure Plus Dido.
Owiso is the son of the respected scholar, the Late Prof Henry Odera Oruka whose death was equally tragic in 1995 at his peak as a Philosophy lecturer at the University of Nairobi. His father was the founder-president of the Philosophical Association of Kenya (PAK) and also the founding-director of the International Institute of Environmental Studies(IIES), Nairobi.
The family is yet to establish what exactly killed the 43-year-old actor.