{"id":141540,"date":"2020-07-24T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T11:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=141540"},"modified":"2020-07-24T15:38:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T12:38:31","slug":"popular-vitimbi-actor-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/popular-vitimbi-actor-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Vitimbi actor dies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kenyan entertainment industry is in mourning again, after one of it\u2019s funniest actors passed on following a short illness.<\/p>\n

Mzee Kihara was a sensation to many, his appearances on our local screens especially if you were a regular viewer of the longtime drama series,\u00a0Vitimbi <\/em>and the most recent Hullabaloo, <\/em>then you know just how much talent we have lost as a country.<\/p>\n

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Mzee Kihara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The revered actor sadly passed on Thursday, July 23 after losing the battle against pneumonia.<\/p>\n

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Also known for his mark in the TV comedy Jungu Kuu,\u00a0<\/em>Kihara is reported to have breathed his last while receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital where he had been admitted.<\/p>\n

Initially, the thespian had been discharged but after his condition worsened, he was rushed back to hospital where he never made it out alive.<\/p>\n

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Hullabaloo cast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vitimbi, Hullabaloo Estate <\/em>and the Kenyan space at large, has indeed lost a talent! This comes just after Papa Shirandula was laid to rest just Monday, July 20.<\/p>\n

May both their souls rest in eternal peace!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kenyan entertainment industry is in mourning again, after one of it\u2019s funniest actors passed on following a short illness. Mzee Kihara was a sensation to many, his appearances on our local screens especially if you were a regular viewer of the longtime drama series,\u00a0Vitimbi and the most recent Hullabaloo, then you know just how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6063,"featured_media":141555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[20,543,132668,132669],"class_list":["post-141540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ghafla-entertainment-news","tag-ghafla-kenya-news","tag-mzee-kihara-death-news","tag-mzee-kihara-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141558,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141540\/revisions\/141558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}