The latest talk in town is former Kenyan cricket player Mourice Odumbe. Odumbe’s name has popped up and now spread like wild fire in the Kalahari Desert after he fell from riches to rags, fame to shame, putting to bed all the glory he earned during his days as Kenya’s most talented and prolific cricket player.
Odumbe lately appeared on Jeff Koinange Live on KTN’s narrating his story and how he lives a miserable life dictated by begging in the streets for a living. At the tail end of the JKL show, most Kenyans who religiously followed the proceedings were in tears, wondering how one could just fall with such a thud, after a successful career that was later ruined by a lady he met and loved and married.
However, Odumbe’s story is not the first one. A number of renowned Kenyans, celebrities and prominent persons have had their lives take different turns and twists after falling in love with white ladies, begging the question, are white women a curse in disguise or it is just a case of selected individuals having bad lack with the Caucasian clandes.
Ghafla Kenya has endeavored to bring you a detailed coverage of some of the celebrities who have heard run-ins with their white lovers, becoming celebrated lovebirds only to fall out, leaving the men with miserable and unadmired lives. Even though some still have enough wealth to splash around, their lifestyles have greatly been altered in one way or the other by their wazungu lovers.
Philip Moi

Who does know the son of the former retired second president of the Republic of Kenya, Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi?
Philip Moi is a household name in Kenya today and this was helped by his court battles in which his mzungu wife, with whom they had children and separated, went to court and demanded that Philip be a responsible father by being compelled to provide for the upkeep of their children.
Rosanna Pluda, the estranged wife of Moi’s son, successfully managed to seek court orders that compelled Philip to part with a whopping Kshs.250,000 monthly for her and the children’s upkeep. A court order or ruling in Kenya and the world over must be respected. Philip embarked on paying for the upkeep of his estranged wife and children. Kshs. 250,000. Monthly. In time. What! That is a trillion times what I earn monthly.
Philip paid but there came a time when he ran bankrupt. He had no option. He went to court and filed a bankruptcy case. He could simply not pay the money. His life became pathetic. To date, it is. And he is still fighting court battles. Battles that are not likely to end any time soon.
Abbas Kubaff

The veteran Kenyan rapper had an affair with one mzungu lady, Natasha, who he met in Mombasa as she stayed with her parents who had big businesses at the coastal town of Kenya.
Abbas, as cunning as he is, managed to lure the white woman into his net, fished her out and was willing to feast on his newest catch. Feasting he did but it seems their affair was not destined to last.
What started like a mere rumour quickly turned out to be true, with news making headlines that Natasha had decided to call it quits with Abbas left in limbo. He had slumbered. He had lost.
Natasha was relocating with her parents to Norway. So you won’t stay back with Abbas? No, I am off to Oslow babe!
These are stories that to date Abbas will strongly refute despite the truth in them. Even though it is not clear whether the white estranged wife to the rapper milked his tits, one thing that remains is that, just like Philip Moi, Abbas Kubaff greatly lost, musically though, and he still feels the void left by the Malaysian-Danish babe. Natasha.
Mourice Odumbe

‘Mourice Odumbe was Kenya’s outstanding player in the 2003 Cricket World Cup Semi-final tournament, averaging 42 with the bat and taking nine wickets. No one remembers that now. In August 2004, he was banned from cricket for five years for associating with a “known bookmaker”.’
This is a paragraph I have picked from a certain article I came across as I searched on what others were thinking about one of Kenya’s most talented cricket players, who to date is mocked instead of being feted.
Mourice Odumbe grew up admiring and trying to play cricket. Finally, it dawned on him. He was spotted and his talent nurtured, subsequently making him one of the best cricket players in Kenya. He travelled overseas in Kenyan colours, with the famous win against perennial rivals and conquerors, West indies, marking the very significant part of his illustrious career.
However, a time came when his downfall peeped around the corner. It saw how he was positioned and hit him hard. This was when the cricketer was accused of match-fixing and subsequently handed a five-year ban from cricket.
Surprisingly, Mourice’s girlfriends, and particularly his white wife, Katherine Maloney, testified against him. How else was he going to win if the person he lived with had testified against him? Mourice had no way out.
He was considered among the most corrupt individuals in Kenya. After his ban, the white wife disappeared. Mourice was all alone. To him, it was a case of a Delilah and a Samson. This is how his downfall began. From grace to grass.
To date, Mourice is poor beggar. Distress calls are being made for Kenyans to help Mourice. He is all alone after a glittering career was cut short by unnecessary shortcomings.
Orenthal James (O.J) Simpson

O.J Simpson was a professional American football player who found himself on the wrong side of the law after the murder of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a waiter Ronald Lyle Goldman, in 1994. O.J was accused of the murder of his wife and the waiter and was embroiled in a court battle that lasted eight months after which he was vindicated.
His case has been described as the most publicized criminal trial in American history.
On June 13, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found murdered outside Brown’s Bundy Drive condo in Los Angeles. Evidence found and collected at the scene led police to suspect that O. J. Simpson was the murderer. Brown had been stabbed multiple times in the head and neck and had defensive wounds on her hands. The wound through her neck was gaping, through which the larynx could be seen.
On his arrest, it require more than 20 police cars and 20 helicopters after O.J Simpson held a gun to the guy driving him and threatened to rip his head apart if he stopped to allow police arrest him.
Even after he was acquitted, the OJ Simpson case still resurfaces to date, as many people believe it was him who killed both the waiter and his wife.
To date, O.J Simpson is still considered a murderer by many Americans, even though he continues refuting these allegations. His life took a new twist altogether.
Oscar Pistorius

The South African Paralympic athlete is behind bars after shooting his white wife Reeva Steenkamp several times and killing her instantly. In the early morning of Thursday, 14 February 2013, Pistorius shot and killed South African model his girlfriend of three months, at his home in Pretoria.
Pistorius acknowledged that he shot Steenkamp, causing her death, but said that he mistook her for a possible intruder. His trial for murder began on 3 March, 2014 in Pretoria
The case saw the athlete in and out of court, with many believing he deserved a long jail term for blatantly shooting and killing his girlfriend after a domestic quarrel.
It is believed that Pistorius and Steenkamp had differences and were in constant wrangles and this must have led to Pistorious shooting her three times, killing her instantly.
On 12 September, Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide and one firearm-related charge, of reckless endangerment related to discharging a firearm in a restaurant. He was found not guilty of two firearm-related charges relating to illegal possession of ammunition and firing a firearm through the sunroof of a car.
On 21 October 2014, he received a prison sentence of a maximum of five years for culpable homicide and a concurrent three year suspended prison sentence for the separate reckless endangerment conviction.
The case and the conviction have to date greatly damaged Oscar’s glittering career, and are likely to bring it to a halt.