Month: September 2013

She is known as controversial and sassy but socialite Huddah Monroe was in rare form yesterday,she showed a part of her that many have not seen.The young lady took gallons of water to the KDF soldiers and journalists camping outside the Westgate mall and this act of kindness caught our eye.

This is what some of you had to say

 @Kyamah_Peter: @huddahmonroe be sure of that boss lady for truly today you have been the one/”

  @HUDDAHMONROE Thanks dear!- Rt “@AfricaVerified: Inspired by @HUDDAHMONROE Beauty without, good sense of belonging is notting!”

@Tonymwangi7: @HUDDAHMONROE God bless u for ua generosity…”

Mimi Okoro ‏@queenmimikel Beauty isn’t about having a pretty face. It’s about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.”@HUDDAHMONROE u r beautiful!!!

@penguinofUG: @HUDDAHMONROE @VincentDola thts a gud gesture of solidarity…atlst u’ve showed us u ain’t a gud for nothing boss lady”

@Bestyne: @HUDDAHMONROE I salute you for being the crazy one that gave water to the journalists n defence forces.God bless you.”

“@gadijama: @HUDDAHMONROE if da world had more people like u it wud be a better place….”

@kvnmimi: @huddahmonroe u touched lives, the little things we do..

@phey_mwesh: @HUDDAHMONROE congrats gal so proud of you”

“@HanniAnn: @HUDDAHMONROE even though yo gave without expecting God will reward u abundantly!!!!!”

THEE BOSS LADY ‏@HUDDAHMONROE Rt “@betbrillie: @HUDDAHMONROE thumbs up gal…showers of blessings”

THEE BOSS LADY ‏@HUDDAHMONROE 18hRt “@AkaZama026: @huddahmonroe God bless u Huddah.

Yesterday, Ambassada executed his plan to get top flight Kenyan artists to show solidarity with the victims of the cowardly Westgate terrorist attack and Kenyan artists responded and did so overwhelmingly. From Ambassada to Ringtone everyone came out and donated blood.

What started off as a rather low key affair at the Bata situated at Hilton, prayers were held (which i was asked to join) before the rest of the pack went on a trek to Uhuru Park on a mission to sensitize Kenyans on the urgent need for blood for the victims of the Westgate terrorism massacre.

Check out the pictures below:

 

 

 

 

 

He is the resident rabble rouser,he treads where angels fear to go and now he is asking questions that many Kenyans want to ask but are afraid of rocking the boat and making waves.

This is what he asks:

Oh,so You’ve FREED a hostage? Go ahead,SHOW US THE HOSTAGE.
You’ve KILLED a terrorist?? Go ahead,SHOW US HIS DEAD BODY.
You’ve SECURED the whole mall?? Go ahead,INVITE the journalists in.
You’ve PUT OUT the fire?? Go ahead,EXPLAIN the smoke then!
There was NO WOMAN among the terrorists?? Go ahead,PROVE IT!
NOBODY Else is Missing?? FINE,show us PROOF.
Ole Lenku,KTN na wenzenu,Hatutaki Nyenyenye!

zone fam are a Zambian hiphop outfit signed to Taurus Music, the same record label that is home to kenyan hiphop group Camp Mulla and Tiri and they have decided to collaborate on a new musical offering for you and yours.

And what’s different in this undertaking is the fact that Kus ma raps in Kiswahili. To be honest, I never thought he could do it but he actually pulls it off.
the track is titled “Jus Ride” and features Tiri -kus ma’s girlfriend on the chorus. And she nails it managing to hold her own and stand out on a track that features more seasoned voices.

The track is a feel good jam that talks about having fun and has the Zambians rapping in their native intelligent tongue sounds mingled with English for the benefit of the greater audience.

The video features lasses in bikinis gyrating. And you already know that gets a thumbs up from me.

 

 

And without further ado, check it out below:

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Radio Africa Group’s Ruhila Adatia – Sood was a radio host on East FM, celebrity news reader for Kiss FM and a TV show host. She unfortunately met her untimely death last weekend at the Westgate Mall attack in the hands of heartless Al-Shabaab militia.

Prayers for Ruhila are being held this evening from 7PM at the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) pavilion as the family awaits the arrival of her sisters who live abroad. Meanwhile funeral arrangements are at an advanced stage and the burial has been slated for Thursday.

Her remains will be interred at the Kariokor Crematorium following the Hindu death rites and rituals. Ruhila was the last born in a family of four.

May her soul find peace.

One of Kenya’s most radical bloggers Robert ALAIi has been applauded not only by Kenyans in the country but also Kenyans in the diaspora and the world over  for keeping  people well informed on the Westgate siege

.Here are some of the positive responses to his live coverage of a series of events in the Westgate attack:
Dennis Itumbi ‏@OleItumbi Congratulations @RobertAlai many followed your tweets for info, Keep it True and Positive #WithOneAccord

AnjleeGadhvi Noorani ‏@AnjleeNoorani Big Thankyou @RobertAlai, you are a real hero, you dedicatedly kept Kenyans updated, I take a bow sir. Get some sleep 🙂

Arthur Goldstuck ‏@art2gee A larger-than-life character in IT media, @RobertAlai is doing an amazing job covering #Westgate events as they unfold

celina kate ‏@kate_celina @RobertAlai we are behind you keep up the good work

Ann McCreath ‏@AnnMcCreath @RobertAlai plz continue as you have been with calm collected information. At this time it’s easy for someone to respond badly.Ignore them

Think Green Movement ‏@muzahimweli @robertalai, thanks 4 ur timely update on#westgate siege, keep it up brother.

Bass! ‏@PrashantB241097 1@RobertAlai Maaad Props Budah..I don’t need the news to be informed of what’s goin on…#RESPECT #WestgateAttacks

innoxi bounty ‏@de_tnec Kudos @Robert Alai for the job well done. God bless yuh, God bless Kenya. #WeAreOne

Gregory Otieno ‏@Bornbusy @robert alai,thanks for the updates man.i salute you

 

Diamond Platnumz is a name that rings familiar all over East Africa. From Tanzania his homeland to Kenya, Uganda, Southern Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi and Congo. The man has the sort of reach most East African artists can only dream of. And he is using it wisely.

Diamond, the most sought after artist in East Africa is using his reach to show solidarity with Kenyans during this trying times and he is pooling in his fans by asking them to change their profile pictures and use the Kenyan flag. this is a decision he came to after Uganda’s own, Jose Chameleone came up with the brainchild and asked his friends to help him make it a movement.

And he isn’t alone as Mzazi Willy M. Tuva has begun to show support for the movement and we all know how influential Mzazi Willy M. Tuva’s brand is.

So no dulling! If you agree with the call for solidarity, then stand with your Kenyan brothers and sisters and tell the terrorists to sod off because here, their attack has only served to foster love!

 

 Mzazi Willy M. Tuva @mzaziwillytuva

 

EastAfrica #WeAreOne> @diamondplatnumz calls on his fans 2 put the Kenyan Flag as their Profile Picture in support of Kenya cc @GhaflaKenya

— Mzazi Willy M. Tuva (@mzaziwillytuva) September 23, 2013

 

Inspired by dating shows such The Bachelor, Flavor Flav, Tujuane and a bunch of other dating reality shows, hip-hop rapper have decided to flip the concept and come up with something special.

The last few weeks he has been posting both on Facebook and Twitter about #tukuLANE something that has made many people question what that was all about. According to K-Nel, there are a lot of stereotype myths about the “African Man” and this is where he comes in.

“My job is to push these myths beyond the limit by dating women from different backgrounds and testing their response,” says K-Nel adding, “Oh my God, just expect the unexpected on this parody show.”

‘Tukulane’ will be an online show that will be streamed on Anglohilitv youtube channel and the series posted on his blog. Viewers should expect drama, sex and everything in between. It will be shot in Cologne, Germany, so any ladies who wanna take part, the casting is open.

Here’s the trailer;

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Robert Alai has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. He has been sued, beaten and once famously prayed for women residing in Kileleshwa to get raped but over the last couple of days, he has been doing Kenyans quite the service and none other than the Godfather of genge has taken notice and thanked him for disseminating information.

And Robert Alai has bravely done this inspite of the fact that there has been alot of resistance online with misguided Kenyans on Twitter asking for a media blackout of the entire tragic affair. But Robert Alai has been prudent and sagacious in the manner in which he has disseminated information and done so faster and more accurately than traditional media outlets which have been left panting in an attempt to keep up with him.

And Nonini has saluted him even issuing a statement on the same:

 

 

Mtu mwingine amekua akisaidia in his own unique way ni one & only Robert Alai. (Massive Shout Out)

He has been feeding Kenyans with information about the Westgate Siege endlessly from Sato! I Wonder when he gets his sleep plus his sources? Is he on the ground while tweeting etc? Whats the latest happenings? etc

He claims the siege is not yet over!

 

 

Octopizzo seems to have undergone a massive paradigm shift and i for one am loving the versatility he is displaying. The lad who hails from Kibera has been making alot of big moves and this one seems to be in line with his ambitions of going continental and perhaps international.

For his latest musical offering, he has teamed up with a popular Dutch group called Chef special and he features on their track titled “We Are One” which is a celebration of our diversities and different cultures.

check out the track below and while the video was shot earlier, I like that it came out now with Kenyans still reeling from the shock of the terrorist attack on Westgate!

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Everyone it seems is terrified to death by what transpired at Westgate the last couple of days and with good reason. Never before has terrorism become so personal for many Kenyans. Never before have cowardly scum targeted Kenyans and refused top respect the laws of yore that women and children are off bounds. The scum that attacked Westgate were killing indiscriminately; women and children aswell.

But Maina Kageni has said that he is not going to let the scum behind the Westgate bloodbath win. He is not going to be cowed by murderous vermin. he is going to continue to live his life. Infact, he will return to Westgate once it is re-opened to the public.

This is what his statement said:

Our condolences to the friends and family of the victims in the Westgate siege. God is with us. He is always watching us.

By the way, the moment Westgate Mall re-opens, I shall be the first to head there for a meal and do my my shopping. We shall not be cowered by these terrorists and their acts. The Kenyan spirit is strong! The Kenyan spirit is deep! The Kenyan spirit is remarkable.

We are experiencing one of the darkest moments in Kenya,but this harrowing ordeal has not dampened the Kenyan spirits

.Just like soldiers we troop on,hoping praying,donating blood and supporting the members of the defense forces by feeding them and encouraging them.And this are one of those beautiful  moments that make me proud to be Kenyan.
Kenyan celebrities have joined hands to send out hopeful encouraging messages and international celebrities have not been left behind.Take a look

CeCile ‏@IAMTHECECILE My brothers n sisters in Nairobi are in my prayers!

demetria lovato ‏@ddlovato My thoughts and prayers are with the beautiful and incredible people of Kenya right now.. ❤

BET ‏@BET Prayers go out to those in Kenya.

Banky Wellington ‏@BankyW Praying for Kenya. May God have mercy. The world we live in is sick and senseless.

Mwana FA posted this photo of this brave man captioned: “Milioni on this one…hope,huzuni,ushujaa,huruma etc….majaribu!!Kenya italivuka na hili…in sha Allah…”

Caroline Mutoko is arguably one of the most meticulous and influential Kenyan media personalities of all time. With over 300,000 likes on her Facebook her influence just gets stronger. The Kiss 100 presenter takes this platform to encourage fellow Kenyans saying:

Scanning through the TV stations I’ve caught images of Kenyans go about their business. It feels good. We cannot agree to be terrorized. Terrorism is an effort to bring a nation to its knees. We cannot let the terrorists achieve the objective of frightening our nation to the point where we don’t conduct business, where our children don’t go to school, where people don’t shop, where we don’t walk freely in our own country, where we don’t live our lives.

That’s their intention. Don’t let them win. If we hide in our houses; if we cancel our events; if we don’t go to school; if we don’t do business; if we turn on each other, if we begin to nitpick at those doing their part to help – then the terrorists have won.

A few months ago,Citizen TV unconsciously created a new celebrity who was dubbed Jose the ‘witnesser’ from Kasalaney(Kasarani) area.

He joined the likes of  Bonoko Deh as one of Kenyans most popular witnesses,you remember him from this phrase “”I witnessed ni kama ndrama ni kama vindio”

His clip about him recapping a robbery incidence in Kasarani then went viral and soon enough Kenyans were using the ‘Nikama Ndrama Ni Kama Video phrase’. Facebook pages were created,TV shows such as Heka Heka,Truthmeter and ChurchLil featured him,he was also hosted on  radio stations  and a celebrity was born
After going underground for a while he is back,as a witness,to the morbid siege at Westgate.This is what he said to K24 and KTN  “Me I just lan (run) away. Am waiting for my servant. Am very safety”.

Jose recounting the horrific incidence(Photo Courtesy Of Nairobi Wire)

As if the Westgate Mall attack is not enough, Somali-based militia group, Al Shabaab, has been issuing threats to a Mombasa-based radio station.

According to sources, Radio Salaam in Mombasa has closed down indefinitely following the terror threats. Though the station is still on air, only recorded programmes are being played. Allegedly the militia group had threatened to attack the TSS Tower-based radio station.

Blogger Robert Alai reports that Al-Shabaab believes that Radio Salaam is being used by NSIS to gather intelligence on terrorists hence the need to muzzle it.

 

Recently KTN aired an alleged investigative piece that claimed the station was intelligence ran.

On the other hand, the station has refuted the claims insisting it was upgrading its transmission;

Sorry for the inconvenience caused to our listeners and clients due to the upgrading of our transmission and studio equipment.We are now live on air to update on the current events…our engineers are working tirelessly to enable us resume normal programming.

Thanks to Mdundo, Kenyan music is finally paying. The legal free music  service offers artistes a transparent and controlled distribution channel that pays at the end of the day from the music downloads.

Without further ado,here are the most downloaded songs over the past week!

Annette Kawira, an upcoming musician popular for her song Pole Pole alongside ‘Genge’ godfather, Nonini, is still shaken after coming face-to-face with the Westgate Mall attackers on Saturday morning.

The singer was at the upscale shopping mall’s Art Caffe when the attackers stormed in and randomly started shooting in all directions. Here’s Annete’s recollection;

Today was an ordinary day. I woke up got ready for work and left the house. Mum had just arrived from Tanzania and had presents for me. I told her I was late and I will look at the presents when I get back home. Kissed my baby bro and left the house for Westgate. My client Chris Wen was on time as always and we had a cafe Latte at Art Caffe. He left after we were done and I continued with my duties.

At around Midday the lights started flickering so when I heard the first shot, I thought it was the transformer. Next thing I see a man infront of me drop dead Then it hit me,things ARE BAD. Then the Blood birth began.The only thought I has was MY FAMILY.As I trembled in a store in Nakumatt MY MUM is all I thought about. As the air filled with gunshots I was thinking about what THEY would write on my obituary.

Unfortunately, Annette’s colleague was injured during the attack and underwent surgery on Sunday.

For now, she’s praying for the innocent people who are still held hostage in the ill-fated mall.

 

Jeremy Odhiambo better known as Saliva Vic describes himself as a “fun lover who at times writes verse, prose and broadcasts as well as the inventor of the epic tweet!” But in blogosphere, he’s infamous for his tweets that have put him at loggerheads with several Kenyans on Twitter.

That aside, today Saliva Vic has revealed his side that many not know of when he eulogized the deceased Radio Africa Group’s entertainment and radio host, Ruhila Adatia – Sood.

Here’s what The Riot host on Hits FM had to say about Ruhila;

I never met Ruhila Adatia Sood. I never met her in person but we were great friends on the social network. I remember the first time I met baby girl I was hosting Nonini’s 1Breakfast show & she tweeted me to tell me that she was listening & loved it. I then tuned in to East FM Breakfast to listen to her hosting Aleem’s show at the same damn time!

That was when my friendship with Ruhila began. We both had an admiration for each other’s work. I would listen to her when I was strung out, hang over & she was filling in for the breakfast crew. I would also tune in during my own show, The Riot, just to get my fix of Ruhila’s bubbly personality.

Yesterday my friendship with Ruhila ended. As I was self medicating kama kawa my ex told me that Ruhila had been shot by those Al Shabaab cowards at Westgate. I refused to believe this as I cried all the way home, only for my brother to confirm it. My biggest weakness has always been procrastination. I put things off then regret not doing them later.

Ruhila, I wanted to surprise you with pastries at your work to celebrate your forthcoming bundle of joy. I kept putting it off to sleep, smoke up, drink or just lounge. Now you’re gone. Tonight I’ll be dreaming of you & I will tell you what I should have when you were here.

Please give the people you love flowers while they can still smell them. Tell someone you love that you love them today.

Pamoja!!!

A terrorist is a combatant who targets civilians rather than engage fellow combatants because by nature, civilian targets are considered “soft”. In essence, terrorists are cowards who thrive off of fearsome spectacles that compensate for their cowardly nature. The terrorist wins when you live your life in fear. Ciku Muiruri isn’t going to be cowed.

She has told the terrorists that they have failed. they suck at their jobs and all they have to do is to instill fear. Kenyans are not going to be cowed. And this is what she had to say:

 

Ruhila Adatia-Sood, a presenter for East FM and an entertainment host for Kiss TV, was one of the 68 people killed in the attack at Nairobi’s Westgate mall. But just who was Ruhila Adatia – Sood (or Ru as referred to by her colleagues)?

On her Twitter page, Ruhila Adatia-Sood described herself as a “food lover, thrill seeker and a bungee jump away from sanity.” “Always looking for my next meal,” she also says on her profile on the East FM website.

A fun-loving person, Ruhila is described on the East FM website as a “TV presenter by day and superhero in the evenings as I get you home in the traffic mess.”

She adds, with a twist of that familiar fun-loving person that she, “believes there’s not enough reality television. Farhan Akhtar (an Indian filmmaker, writer, singer TV host and actor) is my hubby, DiCaprio is my iceberg.”

A graduate of Rhodes University in Grahamstown in South Africa, she used to co-host The Rush on Metro East FM with Gupz Saund.

Ruhila was the wife of Ketan Sood, a senior acquisition and assistance specialist at the USAID mission in Nairobi.

“Ruhila was a popular radio and TV personality, who was known throughout Kenya for her passion, vibrancy, and gift for making people smile,” said Dr. Rajiv Shah, a USAID administrator, in a statement.

Ruhila married Ketan in January 2012 in what The Star on January 9 said was a three-day Swahili-themed wedding.

At the time of her death, she was 6-months pregnant with their first child.

A last born in a family of four girls, Ruhila was brought up with more than two parents with her elder sisters taking care of her and grooming her to become

In an interview published in The Star in September 2012, her three sisters, Pinky, Farah and Shina describe her as a go-getter since childhood with each calling her their ‘baby’. Born and brought up in Nairobi, they now reside in different parts of the world but their childhood memories bring back much nostalgia.

Said Farah Adatia Gomes: “Ruhila loved reading, listening to music and watching TV though she never really got to watch what she wanted as most of the time we used to bully her into watching and listening to what we wanted. She was charming and outgoing, always a leader.”

 

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It seems that Jackson Makini a.ka. CMB Prezzo’s gun toting ways have backfired on him.Over the weekend CMB Prezzo got entangled in an altercation outside Aqua Blue Lounge over a parking space with a Swiss army colonel.

The argument took a turn for the worse when the rapper pulled out a gun and  hit the military officer in the head with gun butt and holster.It is alleged that after hitting the Colonel he then tried cocking his gun to finish off the foreign officer but he was restrained by his bodyguards who then bundled him into his car and sped off.The BBA 7 representative is now a fugitive of the law.The rapper came out to defend himself saying that the Swiss Official had uttered a racial slur and that is what ticked him off:

Here is the tweet:
Jackson Makini ‏@AMB_Prezzo

I got into an altercation wit a foreigner who racially abused me n attacked me last night being human, I rightfully defended myself.