{"id":74683,"date":"2024-06-02T16:05:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T16:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/friends-praise-fallen-babirukamu-as-star"},"modified":"2024-06-02T16:46:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T16:46:08","slug":"friends-praise-fallen-babirukamu-as-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/friends-praise-fallen-babirukamu-as-star","title":{"rendered":"Friends praise fallen Babirukamu as star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>I apologise for being an inconvenience in death as I was in life. I have given it my all and now I find myself with only emptiness. I do sincerely love you all, and hope you will find it in your hearts to forgive me. Kiss my nieces and nephews for me. They are the last joy that I held onto,\u201d read the suicide note, John Birungi Babirukamu, a digital marketer, left before he jumped to his death from Tagore Crescent apartments, on Mawanda Road in Kampala, last Friday morning.<\/b><\/p>\n

Esther Mash will remember her friend as a jolly person who always had a joke and a smile.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe seemed to always light up the room, he was that loud guy,\u201d she emotively eulogises him.<\/p>\n

Filmmaker Mustaque Abdallah says Babirukamu, known to many simply as JJ, \u201cliked joking around a lot and was quite knowledgeable in that ICT world.\u201d In fact, JJ introduced and interested Abdallah in online broadcasting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI first worked with him on a film 256 Writer\u2019s workshop where he helped us with the live communication with the team that was in California,\u201d Abdallah tells, adding, \u201cWe kept in touch and did a few more gigs in that line.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many people remember JJ for the digital footprint he left, especially on LinkedIn where he was so generous with his knowledge.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis posts were often insightful. He had built a good brand as a digital guy. I\u2019m shocked. He had just started a company. I thought he was onto bigger stuff in life,\u201d says Eden Kironde, a public relations account manager at TBWA\\Uganda.<\/p>\n

Ms Allen Suubi describes Babirukamu as a digital marketing genius who loved his craft and was passionate about imparting knowledge to many.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe spoke a few weeks ago. He had joined Moving Ads and suggested a partnership with PRAU,\u201d Suubi says, referring to the acronym of a local PR association, where she is a general secretary. \u201cWe\u2019re busy with plans for the National Symposium, so I requested that we speak after the event.\u201d<\/p>\n

A mentor<\/p>\n

Ms Cynthia Kyofuna counts herself as one of Babirukamu\u2019s proteges after stumbling into the digital marketing space. She speaks fondly about his generosity not just with templates on communication strategy but also contacts of \u201cother industry mentors like John Ssenkeezi and Cynthia Mpanga.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now a communications specialist with Outbox, Kyofuna loved that she had proximity to him, and was always a call away.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn Babirukamu has been an integral part of the programmes at Outbox and has always offered himself to train and nurture young professionals,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Edwin Danze got to know Babirukamu through the digital marketing communities, and from the Next Media Family.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was the one who set up the NBS Twitter and Facebook accounts. He has been very pivotal in leading the digital marketing conversation in the country,\u201d Danze explains, adding that he will remember his former colleague as a humble genius.<\/p>\n

Gentle giant<\/p>\n

Journalist Moses Serugo met Babirukamu at St Mary\u2019s College Kisubi through his brother Andrew Kataryeba. The two would later meet in life when Serugo worked as head of digital at NTV Uganda.<\/p>\n

Babirukamu was working at NBS TV at the time. Serugo describes the fallen digital marketer as one who was passionate about leveraging digital media platforms for the dissemination of broadcast news beyond the first screen\u2014the traditional TV set.<\/p>\n

Babirukamu had more than 14 years of experience in marketing and communications. According to his LinkedIn page, he was a passionate and driven leader who strived to deliver exceptional results for his clients and team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a strong background in management of information systems, digital marketing, and digital transformation, as well as multiple ISO certifications that demonstrate my commitment to quality and security. In my most recent role as the General Manager at Hedge Marketing, I oversaw the operations, business development, and strategy of a growing mid-sized businesses that serve a diverse range of clients across various sectors in Uganda,\u201d he stated, in part, adding that he always looked for new opportunities to expand, enhance his knowledge, create value, and most of all, pass on what he had learnt over the years to the next generation of marketers.<\/p>\n

Mr Babirukamu pursued an eMBA from the University of Suffolk, and held memberships with the Chartered Institute of Marketing-UK, Uganda Marketers\u2019 Society and a Vice Presidency with the newly constituted Uganda Digital Society.<\/p>\n

His death shines the spotlight on the often-neglected issue of men\u2019s mental health. For a man, who dominated his field, talk of a deep-seated \u201cemptiness\u201d didn\u2019t make sense to many. By press time, his burial arrangements were not readily available.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Uganda. I apologise for being an inconvenience in death as I was in life. I have given it my all and now I find myself with only emptiness. I do sincerely love you all, and hope you will find it in your hearts to forgive me. Kiss my nieces and nephews for me. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":74682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-74683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-culture-and-art","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"\nFriends praise fallen Babirukamu as star - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I apologise for being an inconvenience in death as I was in life. 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