Background
Ruhila Adatia was born and brought up in Kitisuru, Nairobi.
Ruhila Adatia was born and brought up in Kitisuru, Nairobi.
She graduated from Aga Khan Academy, Nairobi, and in 2007 from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.
Since 2007 she had worked for Kenya Radio Africa Group as a news presenter and Rankingshow Kiss 100 moderator for Kiss television, and Metro East FM, a radio station in Nairobi aimed at Kenyan Asians. Since 2011 she was, together with Kamal Kaur, a moderator of a television cooking show for children, recorded each month in Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi. She was wounded in the Westgate shopping mall shooting while hosting a cooking competition for children in the centre"s rooftop car park, and died on the way to the Aga Khan Hospital.