Patrick Manjoe’s Passing: A Devastating Blow To Liberian Broadcast Journalism

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PHOTO: Trailer that preceded the return of the Cyrus-Pat Show on state radio ELBC sometime ago

Writes Frank Sainworla, Jr., fsainworla@yahoo.com

Patrick Kolubah Manjoe, one of Liberia’s most outstanding professional broadcast Journalists is dead.

The onetime Deputy Director General for Broadcasting at the Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) reportedly died in the United States where he was residing on Saturday, January 13, 2022.

With a deep sense of passion backed by his professional training and great talent, the late Mr. Manjoe was a broadcast Journalist par excellence, multi-talented and a master radio producer. His broadcast quality was of high international standard.

One of Liberia’s top broadcast Journalists and an intimate friend of Patrick, Cyrus Wleh Badio could not hide the pain and great lost he and other media colleagues of this great fallen broadcasting hero have sustained in his Facebook post.

“At about 12:15 a.m., (Liberian Time), January 14, 2023, I lost part of me. My friend and my brother, Patrick Kolubah Manjoe, peacefully gave up his fight to stay alive. This is a moment I always dreaded since he started hinting to me quietly the deteriorating state of his health.

How could this be, Pat?”

Although he was confined to the wheelchair after experiencing a stroke in later life and far away in the US, the affable Liberian broadcast Journalism guru in the last few years teamed up with his buddy Cyrus Badio to bring back their most popular radio magazine program, Cyrus-Pat Show, which they ran weekly on the state radio, ELBC every Friday evening from 4-6Pm.

With the death news of one of Liberia’s most prolific broadcast Journalists being digested by one of his closet professional colleagues, Cyrus Badio continues on his Facebook page:

“I’m still trying to process what has happened, and wishing that this was just another bad dream.

You fought an excellent fight, my brother. I will miss you forever. Your genuine friendship, your professionalism, your charming personality, your deep love of family and country, and above, the fun we had in doing what we loved best (broadcasting), will all be missed.

Liberias first interactive radio talk show, the Cyrus-Pat Show, launched in 1987 on ELBC – 89.9 FM, but interrupted during our civil crises, and relaunched on April 1, 2016, will never be the same without you. But to your memory and professional broadcasting, we will continue to run the program, and contribute occasionally to football commentaries until we can do so no more.

But as this Friday approaches, the other professional half of the Cyrus-Pat Show has been permanently terminated by the cold hands of death and will not be on the other side of the microphone.

Details of broadcast Journalist Patrick Manjoe’s passing and further family arrangements are still coming in.

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