DID YOU KNOW? Mbusi Started Off As The Ghetto Radio Tea Boy

Tea boy (noun.), definition – The newest entrant to a business place, who is forced to do degrading tasks and mainly runs around after everybody else.

In an interview with Citizen TV’s Mgaagaa na Upwa program, Mbusi revealed how he was searching for casual labour in the streets of Nairobi. He said:

“Hii mwili yangu pyenga, siwezi enda inda ati kuchukua mawe nianze kufanya kazi ya mjengo. Ilibaki sasa hutu tukazi tudogo tudogo, ka kuuza hiyo supu hivi.”

After his stint selling foodstuffs, he turned to acting to support himself. He recalled an acting audition which he did with the interviewer, where he got a lucky break and met with Maji Maji, the boss at Ghetto Radio:

“Ndio tukapatana na wewe (the interviewer) tukienda interview fulani hapo ya comedy… nikakuwa… huo sonko ame-like, akanitumania. Sa mi kuenda, walinipea slot ya asubuhi hapo Ghetto Radio ya kuleta traffic updates.”

Unfortunately, Mbusi did not impress, even as the traffic updates guy, so he was demoted to being the tea boy at Ghetto Radio. According to him, Maji Maji told him:

“Sasa wee job ile tunaweza kupea juu huna sauti ya radio, labda tukufanye messenger. Kazi yangu ilikuwa tu ni kumkema. Nakaa tu hapo karibu na yeye…”

And then Mbusi began to learn the ways of radio via apprenticeship. The rest, as they say, is history. Check out the full interview in the video below:

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