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Watamba Has Returned to the Public Stage
Not very surprisingly the same Watamba who wrote the "Free Your Voice Manifesto" wasn't born as the elusive "Jajah Watamba" he is now. It is only in the last decade that he, and even then only from time to time, changed his name to the pseudonym he started to give speeches, hold lectures and publish ravishing rantings on communication theories under. The same name that gave the revolutionary web-activated telephony service JAJAH Web its name.
Initially the now around forty-year old Australian native (a.k.a. Aborigine) was born a regular Pete Smith, John Doe, Caileb Kooroora, you name it. He grew up in the Outback (that much is known), in a time well before Internet and mobile communication in a somewhat obscure environment: Parents unknown, supposed religious influences inflicted on the young man who was to grow up to become "Jajah" Watamba, some traumatic experience (possibly an injury sustained in the bush at a young age), and most likely the list goes on. All this left him to be a "bit of a recluse" (an all-seeing, all-knowing publican from a hick town in the Outback). He drifted towards the field of computer/telecommunication science and got himself a college degree in Perth, W.A. in the late '80s.
Disillusioned with the way the communication industry was going in the 1990s, he immersed himself in endless ranting on how the whole communication industry should be, once and for all - and globally at that - opened up to all and every individual (and their dog thrown in for good measure). Technical and economic barriers were to be eliminated. Proprietary systems disengaged.
Similar to religious nutcases he gathered a dedicated following and started to dig deeper in his own personal past. What a glorious day for the inspired young man that was, learning that, as it turns out, he is a direct descendant of the infamous Watamba, founder of the self-lovingly named Watamba tribe and, more importantly, the inventor of the bush-roarer.
The name Jajah Watamba was born on that day. The network of free-thinking communication experts started to grow and work. JAJAH Web is the sweet tasting fruit of that labour.
The man Watamba remains elusive, but is said to be in irregular touch with JAJAH Inc. An unconfirmed rumour at best.
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