Top 7 Ghafla Moments Of 2012
The year is finally drawing to a close and everyone has been taking stock of the year that was and we here at Ghafla are no different.
We were talking in the office about what the highlights of the year 2012 were and we came up with these few events that really lit up the year for us:
#7. Ghafla Gossips
That is a trend that was started by Kenny Kaburu of the Pulse to insult us. But you our fans helped us turn the negativity into positivity. Thank you! What was meant to be our twitter Waterloo turned into just the opposite. And the tweets that came up were truly hilarious! That day, Ghafla was trending and so were 4 of our articles. That is simply because of the goodwill from our friends and readers. Thank you!
#6. Getting traffic to the site upto 2million
One of my highlights has been growing the readership. We have come a long way from getting excited when an article gets 3,000 hits to only getting excited when an article gets 20,000 hits. You the reader have made that possible. Thank you. This highligt is actually a celebration of you the reader!
#5. Wily M. Tuva crashing the site
Wily M. Tuva has one of the biggest radio shows and one of the biggest following. In October, he did a show that was about marketing Safaricom but he decided to make the centre of the show Ghafla. His listeners were meant to get the information to some of the questions he’d be asking from Ghafla. We crashed! The sheer volume of hits he sent our way overwhelmed Ghafla! That is just an example of how influential Mzazi Wily M. Tuva is.
#4. Chim joining the team
Before Chim joined, work was pretty mundane. Then Chim joined and now our days are spent riding unicorns and taking shots of vodka served up to us by mermaids as we type away by the sea-shore. Ok, that’s not what the team would say but who cares, we all know this to be the truth right Kone?
#3. Ghafla turned a year old
Don’t get me wrong, before Ghafla, there was Kenyan Lyrics but after Ghafla there shall be none! And Ghafla turned one! Yep, we turned a year old since Baba Ghafla got the funding he needed to turn his dream into a reality. And since then, the entertainment scene has never been the same. And we did it big at Sankara with champagne, some rather posh little cakes (why is anything posh small? Save for it’s cost that is!).
#2. Ghafla broke into the top 20 sites ranking.
We are currently number 18 actually but i love seeing all the hard work the team put into Ghafla paying off. We grew in leaps and bounds and we are still growing thanks to God’s grace and favour. Na afa na, na nwa na, na muo nso! (in the name of the father, the son and of the holy spirit) We will continue to grow! Amen.
#1. Ghafla news section was launched
Before we launched the news section, we simply aggregated lyrics for all Kenyan songs. Then one day, the eccentric Baba Ghafla came up with an idea… Why not be the biggest gossip girl in Kenya? XOXO! That rather crazy idea was to be the goose that lays the golden eggs! He took a risk at a time when everyone was asking him to play it safe. He had a dream and he owned it. Ghafla was born in the form you know and love!
Here’sa salute to everything that we have weathered or enjoyed this year! From my joining the team to Ghafla switching to news to Chege growing an inch and Kone’s dreadlocks looking less ratchet. And to the most important of them all, you the reader! Kudos!
