Shanghai World Championships. Then at the All Africa Games in Maputo he won gold medals in the 50 and 100m butterfly, silvers in the 50m backstroke, 100m freestyle and 200m butterfly and a bronze in the 50m freestyle. 2012 – Summer Olympics At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Dunford competed in the men's 100 m butterfly only, finishing in 12th place. He was also Kenya's flag bearer. 2014 – Commonwealth Games At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Dunford reached the final in the 50 and 100 m butterfly. After representing Kenya for just shy of a decade, this was his final international competition. 2014 - 2016 After retiring from swimming, Jason worked for two companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, GreenCitizen and Sunrun, working in sales, business development and project management roles. 2016 - 2018 – Stanford Graduate School of Business In 2016, Jason enrolled at the Stanford Graduate School of Business to pursue his MBA, following earlier attainment of a BA in Human Biology and an MS in Earth Systems from Stanford University. During the course of his MBA, he co-founded Safi Analytics with his wife Lauren and founded his own talk-show J-Talk Live. 2018 - 2019 – the BBC and the emergence of Samaki Mkuu After graduation with his MBA in June 2018, Dunford joined the BBC as a bilingual, broadcast journalist working on a new Africa TV business team led by Africa business editor Larry Madowo, where he reported and produced for the shows Smart Money, Biashara Bomba, Money Daily and Mitikasi Leo. In October, 2019 Jason left the BBC to pursue his music career full-time. Dunford began rapping in September 2018 after an invitation from Romantico to collaborate on the single Mbaya. In writing his rap for the first verse, he discovered his stage name Samaki Mkuu, composing the line "Naogelea nitakuwa Samaki Mkuu" .The experience led to the formation of the duo Romantico & Samaki Mkuu, the creation of the new sound Gengetone, a merger of Genge and Reggaeton, that includes Swahili, Spanish and English lyrics. The duo's second song, Baila Baila, was a collaboration with the King of Genge, Jua Cali and was released in April 2019. Their third song, Chikicha, which launched in June 2019, was a collaboration with Munju Reh. Their fourth release, Caro, came out in November 2019. Samaki Mkuu then released his first single, a collaboration with his former colleague