‘Banjuka’ hit maker Dennis Kaggia alias DNA lost his son Jamaal Ali Waweru who drowned in the school’s swimming pool.
DNA’s son died at the age of nine. He was a pupil at Kitengela International School where he drowned on March 26, 2018. He was rushed to Nairobi Women’s hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The rapper’s late son was laid to rest yesterday at the Lang’ata cemetery in a funeral attended by friends and family.
The death of DNA’s son was a big blow to him and it took him a long time to get over his grief.
The rapper only recently talked about his son’s death during an interview.
“To be honest, I don’t like to talk about my son Jamal and how it all happened, because it always throws me into a very deep thought. The other day I saw Jamal’s mother and it gave me peace of mind that none of us could fix what had already happened. Jamal died after drowning in the school pool,” DNA explained in grief.
He admitted that the incident hit him very badly as it was one of the “unusual” incidents that threw him into a deep depression for a long period of mourning until he almost lost other children.
“It hit me hard. You know my baby was everything. There are unusual things like losing a child who was not sick. After losing Jamal, let me lose some other children due to drowning in the depths of thoughts,” DNA said.
The veteran rapper also said that he doesn’t see himself marrying.
“I started with Hip Hop and my main goal was only for music and I was not thinking about women and love. I was losing women. But in my life I’ve met beautiful and beautiful women, I’ve been in a long-term relationship… but unfortunately I don’t get the whole plate of love,” DNA said n part.
“These love stories are for people who remember. People who have not been heart broken here and there, I feel that I knew much more, I had many experiences that did not allow me to be in a pure relationship. I was dirty…” he said regretfully.
DNA added;
“Now, the bad page in this is that I am not able to give my children what I would like to give them, like staying with them and seeing them every day. But life comes as it comes and I don’t see myself living with a woman as if we were holding hands while walking, that can’t happen to me.
“The more I look at myself now, I feel my strength is higher than having just one person. It’s like I’m going to give her a hard time.”
However, the veteran rapper said his love for his two daughters still cannot change and they will always come first, even if he cannot spend time with them every day.
