{"id":151276,"date":"2020-11-09T11:27:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T08:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=151276"},"modified":"2020-11-09T11:27:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T08:27:18","slug":"19-year-old-kenyan-comedian-elsa-majimbo-wins-highly-competitive-e-peoples-choice-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/19-year-old-kenyan-comedian-elsa-majimbo-wins-highly-competitive-e-peoples-choice-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year old Kenyan comedian Elsa Majimbo wins highly competitive E! People\u2019s Choice Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elsa Majimbo, a 19-year old comic whose shining star came at a time when the world seemed to be on its knees, has been crowned E! People\u2019s Choice Awards African Social Star winner.<\/p>\n

Introduced to many as the crisp-eating, straight-talking Kenyan comedian whose love for the classic style made her stand out and become unavoidable.<\/p>\n

Also read: Wild reactions after America\u2019s Steve Harvey endorses 19-year old Kenyan comedy star Elsa Majimbo<\/a><\/p>\n

A 19-year old journalism student, whose simple, blunt comical stunts were discovered amid the COVID-19 lock-down, bagging her a massive audience on her social media and now on International arenas.<\/p>\n

The much-awaited announcement<\/h2>\n

\u201cI won the E! People\u2019s Choice Award!!!\u201d she screamed. An announcement she made public this morning, looking calm and unbothered with the fact that she was declared winner at the highly-competitive global nominations.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Elsa Majimbo wins highly competitive E! People\u2019s Choice Awards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Also read: Popular Kenyan comedian nominated for prestigious US Award\\<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, probably that\u2019s just her, she can make the world laugh but she is a relatively calm, composed and easy-going individual.<\/span><\/p>\n

An award nomination she managed to clinch, flooring major International superstars whom she was up against, including South Africa\u2019s pop star Sho Madjozi among 7 other nominees, globally.<\/p>\n

This is under the category of \u2018African Social Star of 2020\u2019 whose win would be solely decided upon by the voters.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Elsa Majimbo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201c<\/span>This year has been a whirlwind of discomfort and confusion for everybody. But for me it’s also brought with it a great lesson. That sometimes even the greatest obstacles in our path can be opportunities in disguise,\u201d she beautifully acknowledged.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I WON THE E! PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD!!!!! <\/p>\n

Penning a big thank you to every single person who supported her n any way – big or small – it all made a huge impact in the end, and look at her now!<\/p>\n

It has been all Congratulatory messages to the Kenyan Internet sensation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elsa Majimbo, a 19-year old comic whose shining star came at a time when the world seemed to be on its knees, has been crowned E! People\u2019s Choice Awards African Social Star winner. Introduced to many as the crisp-eating, straight-talking Kenyan comedian whose love for the classic style made her stand out and become unavoidable. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6063,"featured_media":151281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[134240,134239,20],"class_list":["post-151276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-e-peoples-choice-awards-news","tag-elsa-majimbo-news","tag-ghafla-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151276","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=151276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151282,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151276\/revisions\/151282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}