TOXIC: I’M NOT WYCLEF’S JUMPOFF

Wycleff poses with Toxic (dressed in black) and her dancers before the MAMAs

Socialite and dancer Toxic is up in arms after a report in a local daily branded her Wycliff Jean’s chips funga.
A chips funga or bhajia funga or take away is Nairobi slang for a one-night stand. “Everyone who was there knows that Wyclef was interested in one of my pals not me.”
She said that the said relationship between former Fugees star and the Toxic dancer was not clandestine, “He introduced her to some guys after The MAMAs as “my girlfriend” and he called her just the other day.”
On the reports, Toxic whose real name is Juliet Kwamboka said, “It is a lie. What they published is wrong I can’t have my relationship jeopardised over misleading reports.”
Toxic has kept a low profile recently mostly because of her new beau. “I wouldn’t mind if he wasn’t in my life but now he is. This could get in the way of my relationship.

GICH BOY PAYS BRIDE PRICE

Actor and DJ Gich Boy visited the Coast last month to pay bride price for his soon-to-be wife. The Formula X actor’s wedding date has been set for December 17. Keep it here for the venue and more.
Gich Boy is the son of former Finance minister in Moi’s regime Arthur Magugu.
Another celebrity who is set to say his “I do”, Bobi Wine, will be wedding the mother of his two kids, Barbara Itungo, on Christmas eve.
The ceremony will reportedly take place at One Love Beach off Entebbe road.

KENYAN FILM SHOWN IN GREEK FESTIVAL

Alex in front of the festival logo "Why Cinema Now?"

A Jitu Films production was screened at the European Film Festival in Thessaloniki, Greece on Wednesday 18. Chasing Moses is the only African movie being screened at the 50th edition of the festival on the Digital Wave section that supports young and upcoming filmmakers who make use of the digital technology. The movie was shot on location in Kibera slum and Olorigesaille.
The film’s director Alexandros Konstantaras says he will bring in a few Kenyan and Congolese students from the Thessaloniki University where his father teaches chemistry to experience a Kenyan movie. So far Kenyan actress Lizz Njagah has also participated in the screening of the movies at the festival that started last Friday.


Lizz Njagah poses with Alex Konstantaras at the the festival's offices in Olympion cinema


Alex, Lizz and Thomas Tsaparas (R2 actor) after a film screening


Lizz Njagah poses with Alex Konstantaras at the National Museum in front of some ancient Greek statues

TUKU HONOURED WITH CULTURAL AMBASSADOR AWARD

Zimbabwe's biggest music stars Oliver Mtukudzi was last week honoured with a 2009 Cultural Ambassador Award in San Diego in the United States.
The award is sponsored by Project Concern International (PCI) charity, which works in Botswana, Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, South Africa and Zambia in different community projects for people living with HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases.
This is Mtukudzi’s first international award. The singer is currently in the UK where, he is set to share the stage with Thomas Mapfumo.

HILLARY CLINTON WRITES TO KENYAN PHOTOJOURNALIST

CNN photojournalist Boniface Mwangi received a letter from the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lauding him for his “incredible talent”.
The letter dated September 4, thanks Boniface for sending Hillary a copy of his book Kenya Burning. This is a collection of photos by nine photographers who risked their lives to take photos during and after the disputed 2007 election.
Boniface Mwangi and Yasuyoshi Chiba are the two main photographers whose work is featured prominently in the book. The others are Thomas Mukoya, Tom Otieno, Allan Gichigi, Arno Kopecky, Anne Holmes, Georgina Goodwin and the Star’s Charles Kimani.
The letter said in part: “You posses an incredible talent and I must share my congratulations for many accomplishments and awards. Please know you have my best wishes for continued success in your career.”
Boniface said that the book got to Hillary through US envoy Michael Ranneberger, a personal friend but lamented at the slow pace the book is taking to get to President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga who have yet to acknowledge receipt.
Other high profile personalities who have received the book include Ghanaian President John Kufour, former president Daniel Arap Moi and Professor Philip Alston.

BBA EVICTEE LEONEL DENIES INTIMACY WITH MZAMO

Sunday’s tenth live eviction show saw Mozambican Leonel evicted from the Big Brother Revolution House. He becomes the 18th housemate to leave the house. Were it not for Leonel’s colleague he wouldn’t have signed up for the reality show.
“She saw an e-mail inviting people to audition and she said: ‘You are funny, you speak English and you just may win’”.
The IT administrator maintains that Mzamo is a “friend” and Geraldine is the one he “liked” adding that he couldn’t stand Nkenna, and that the moments he shared the bed with Mzamo nothing happened.
Leonel is rooting for Kevin or Emma to win. He is the first housemate from his country on the show.
Meanwhile, Itai is the next head of house and Emma and Mzamo are up for eviction. With 20 days to go until the last man standing leaves the M-Net reality show Sh15 million richer, seven housemates are left to battle it out.

CHIZI’S ALBUM OUT IN FEBRUARY

Self-proclaimed crown prince Dan ‘Chizi’ Aceda is back from New York after a month spent staging the political musical Mo Faya. With him comes the news that his sophomore album, which earlier this year had been postponed indefinitely, will be out in February.
The album dubbed Number 1 is expected to feature the hit songs Soufflé, Blackberry and Sweet Lady. It is also reported that he has featured talented acts like Eric Wainaina, Wyre, Suzanna Owiyo and Pam though Chizi is choosing to keep his cards very close to his chest.
The architecture graduate says, “I know that a lot of people are expecting my annual Christmas concert so I am working on getting that worked out. I will definitely let everyone know about it as soon as I am clear on how it will happen,” said Chizi.
Currently, the Saida hitmaker plays ‘Prof’ in Eric Wainaina’s hit musical Mo Faya. The musical based on a traditional Luo legend was the runaway hit of the 2009 New York Musical Theatre festival and is now showing in Nairobi at the GoDown Arts Centre till December 6.

KENYAN IN TWILIGHT SAGA’S NEW MOON

Kenyan actor based in America Edi Mue Gathegi is on the sequel of The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Edi plays Laurent, a bloodthirsty vampire who feasts on human blood but gets killed in the end by other werewolves. It officially opens in US theatres tomorrow but the highly anticipated movie and its cast got a red carpet treatment on Monday on its Los Angeles premiere.
However, controversy is brewing over the 30-year-old actor being cast as Laurent. At the roundtable interviews during a recent press junket for the film in Los Angeles he said, “I saw that they (fans) were really disappointed in my casting because it was not a black vampire who was written in Stephenie Meyer’s mythology. But there was an olive-complexioned vampire. So I decided to address the issue head on and I said, ‘There are many different types of olive. I’m a black olive.”
Edi also plays Deputy Martin in My Bloody Valentine, his first lead role, which came out January 16. It is a 1980s horror remake and it is in 3-D. You also remember him well for his appearances as Dr Jeffrey Cole in the television series House.

Here is the trailer...

TREE-PLANTING PHOTOS WIN UN ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEST IN AFRICA

Photos of Kenyans planting trees and Moroccan women turning plastic bags into handbags won a United Nations-backed eco-themed contest focused on Africa, which profiles ordinary people working to preserve the environment and reduce the effects of climate change in their communities.
“By showing us what ordinary citizens of Africa are doing to tackle climate change, we see the extraordinary power of photographs to tell stories,” said Helen Clark, Administrator the UN Development Programme, which launched the contest in partnership with Tokyo-based camera maker Olympus Corporation and the French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) Foundation.
“These photographs will help carry the message to Copenhagen that the poorest and most vulnerable stand to lose the most from climate change, and must be part of any agreement,” she added, referring to next month’s UN Climate Change Conference in the Danish capital, which is expected to be attended by 15,000 officials from 200 countries.
First prize winners in The Picture This: Caring for the Earth’ contest are Kenyan newspaper photo editor Jacob Otieno in the professional category for his image of environmentalists planting trees in a water catchment area; Faiza Hajji Wozniak, a Moroccan social entrepreneur, in the photo essay category for the women making handbags; and Simon Ndegwa, a Kenyan youth pastor, in the amateur category for a Kenyan couple planting a tree on their wedding day.
Their awards include a certificate of acknowledgement from UNDP and digital cameras and camera equipment from Olympus Corporation. Mr. Otieno will receive a two-week internship at one of AFP’s bureaus in Africa. The second and third place winners from Cameroon, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Senegal and South Africa will all receive digital cameras from Olympus.
The contest jurors were Nobel Peace Prize winner and Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai and four professional photojournalists, including Peter Magubane, one of South Africa’s most internationally acclaimed photographers, and John Isaac, Olympus Visionary photographer and a UN photojournalist for nearly 30 years.

NICOLAS CAGE VISITS PIRATES IN KENYAN PRISON

Reportedly broke, the American National Treasure movie star Nicholas Cage flew into Kenya fron Uganda on Monday 9 to visited the Shimo La Tewa under a UN counter-piracy programme.
The UN Goodwill Ambassador for UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said, “I wanted to see first-hand how the prisoners are being treated here,” he said. “The whole issue of piracy on the high seas has captured everyone’s imagination, and I needed to come and see the piracy suspects and understand why they do what they do.”
Nicolas also lauded Wanini Kireri the head of prison for running ‘the warmest prison in the world’.
The counter-piracy programme is also undertaking the renovation of Shimo-la-Tewa’s prison’s canteen and the modern energy-saving kitchen funded by the UN office. Niclosa leaves on Wednesday 18 for the US.
He was in Uganda from November 12 and left on Monday after a visit to northern Uganda to raise awareness about the victims of war. Before his trip there, he was cagey about the details. He said, “I’m excited that I’m going to go to Uganda. I’ll spend eight days there, but I don’t want to talk too much about it because it’s sort of about my new life in terms of what I want to do with the emphasis on action.”


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CANDID CHAT WITH LIZ AND KAONE

Comrade in arms Liz and Kaone were the sixth evictees from the Big Brother Revolution house. In a telephone interview from Johannesburg, the two talked about various issues.
South African Fabuliz said that in as much as fellow countryman voted to have her up for eviction, “He did nothing wrong, Quin did not betray me!” adding that “The money will definitely come home,” refereeing to Quin who is the remaining South African contestant.
Liz also commented on being branded a ‘Spoilt brat’ by Ethiopian Yacob. “He can call me whatever he wants but I know who I am,” adding that their relationship in the house was “civil” at most, “I didn’t hate anyone – I didn’t like Yacob, but I didn’t hate anyone,” she said.
Liz said her love for the Ugandan boys, Phil and Hannington, had “nothing to do with the country” rather that they had the same likes and dislikes.
Botswana’s Kaone is enjoying the “freedom” of being outside the Big Brother house, “though I miss Eddy and the pranks we pulled in the house,” said Kaone. He plans to go back home to establish himself as a brand. Kaone was taken aback when we asked him about his argument with Kenyan evicted housemate Teddy Muthusi. After a long silence he said, “The little argument I had with him basically was about both of us trying to express ourselves. It was nothing personal.” Did it cost Teddy his chance in the house? “Yeah, halfway through, I think so, but I wouldn’t put his eviction entirely on that because Africa might have had other reasons too.”

CON ARTISTE MAKES AWAY WITH CAROLINE MUTOKO’S SH1 MILLION

A shady businessman has been accused of conning Kiss 100 Radio presenter Caroline Mutoko out of Sh1 million during her social campaign to equip secondary schools in rural areas with water tanks was charged on Thursday 12.
George Titi Kadu defrauded the presenter by pretending to be an agent of an international company and that he would supply 16 tanks to schools in Kenya, but with the financial support from the presenter.
Being the torch bearer of the education campaign, she was called Kadu and was informed that he would supply the schools through Otung Limited. But the schools which were to receive the tanks were contacted, administrators said they had received no water tank.
When Caroline contacted Pioneer Water Tanks head offices in Australia, but they disowned Kadu saying they had even told him to stop using their name.
Kadu said has denied the charge before a court in Kibera.
The case will be heard on January 13 next year.

BEANIE MAN FOR UGANDA

The celebrated Jamaican “King of The Dancehall” Bennie Man, is set to perform in Kampala on December 5 in a show dubbed “Chamuka Keys Grand Finale with Bennie Man,” at the Kyadondo Rugby Grounds.
The Dude hitmaker will be travelling with his full band to Kampala.

ALL NEW O ACCESS SEASON 4

Nonhle and Cedric the Entertainer courtesy of Channel O

Nonhle and Nicky Hilton courtesy of Channel O

Nonhle and Anthony Hamilton courtesy of Channel O

Nonhle and Doctor Rey courtesy of Channel O

The fourth season on O ACCESS returns to Channel O this month and audiences are invited to tune in and catch the best behind the scenes interviews as the series kicks off with Keri Hilson on Tuesday, November 17 at 21:00 CAT.

“It was incredible,” says Nonhle of her time in the US with Hilson. “The single Turnin’ Me On was just huge at the time of our shoot and we got to hang with Keri during an album signing session in New York, she walked around the city, signing autographs and giving away copies of her album. People were going crazy for her and it gave us real insight into what it’s like to be a star at that level.”

Nonhle and the O Access team also went behind-the-scenes at the video shoot for Hilson’s single, ‘Knock You Down’ featuring Ne-Yo and Kanye West, capturing all the drama, emotion and hard work that went into creating the show-stopping clip.

And, in her inimitable way, Nonhle didn’t waste time in getting under the skin of this in-demand superstar: her one-on-one interview gives viewers a chance to hear from Hilson herself how she moved from being a below-the-radar songwriter to a world-class solo artist, the inspiration behind her album In A Perfect World and how she came up with the hit song Turnin’ Me On.

Says Nonhle, “The show we did with Keri is a brilliant way to introduce Season 4 of O Access because I can honestly say that we took things to a new level this time around. Like what happened with Keri, we got to spend some real time with the world’s biggest entertainment stars and there were always things that happened that were not planned but that make for great television.”

Indeed the scoop comes at a time when Hilson’s star has never been brighter: she has just been nominated for Favourite Soul/R&B Female Artist and T-Mobile Soul/R&B Breakthrough Artist in the American Music Awards and already the Grammy bets are on this incredible multi-talent.

O Access is a brand new look and feel that underscores what everyone knows – and that is that there is only one place to be each Tuesday at 21:00: tuned into DStv channel 320 for O Access season 4!

Other stars that audiences will get to see this season include Sean Paul, Vivica Fox, Flo-Rida, Black Eyed Peas, Brick and Lace, Cedric the Entertainer, Robin Thicke, Lady Gaga and Wale just to name a few.

NEW MR GOOGZ

A new look Mr Googz is telling other gospel celebrities to stop entertaining and spread the good word of the Lord. Tell it straight stop entertaining. Here you go... Enjoy

TANZANIAN RAPPER RISKS ARREST FOR SHOWING OFF WITH AK47

Self proclaimed leader of the Tanzanian hip-hop group TMK Wanaume, Amani James Temba aka Mheshimiwa Temba, doesn’t mind that his photo of him wielding an AK47 rifle is making Internet rounds.
Temba who took the photo in Monrovia, Liberia in August, when he was in the city during the First Anniversary Independence celebrations says the photos leaked after he forgot his flashdisk in the office where he works.
Keep it here for any details of when the hiphop hard knock gets a visit from the police.

WAHU REPLIES TO ABBAS’ DISS ON MTV MAMAs FAVOURING HER AND NAMELESS

Rapper Abbas has been spewing vitriol saying Nameless and Wahu were favoured by the just concluded MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain.
Abbas raised questions on why members of the same family got nominated and won awards two years running. This is not the first time the rapper has directed his hate at another artiste. Last year he ranted about Jua Cali performing on the same stage with rap maestro The Game, saying Jua Cali is no rapper.
Commenting on the attack, MAMA’s Best Female Artiste Wahu said, “We handed in our nominations like everyone else and I don’t know what MTV was looking for. It feels bad that a colleague can feel that way about the awards. We had nothing to do with the nominations or the winning, Africa voted. Actually it is not about the Kamoni family but about Kenya.”

WANURI: I WANT MAATHAI TO SEE MY SCI-FI

Kenya’s first science fiction movie Pumzi produced by Wanuri Kahiu was launched at the opening of the Kenya International Film Festival at the National Museums’ Louis Leakey Auditorium.
After the 29 minute-film was over; it was evident that the audience was wowed. Even Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, the chief guest of the night, was “at a loss of words.” He said, “Wanuri is a candidate for a Nobel Prize, she has taken Wangari Maathai’s concept a notch higher.”
To this Wanuri who had earlier on in the night described the making of the movie a “labour of love” said, “I would like Wangari to watch it because she inspired me.”
She dedicated the movie to her young niece Karimi who is part of Kenya’s future generation.
Pumzi is about Kenya at a time when water is a scarce resource and everyone lives inside Maitu community. The lead character Asha, a bald headed girl, works as a curator in the natural virtual museum. She is the only one who dares to escape from the community because she believes there is life on the outside.
Hollywood actor Giancarlo Esposito lauded Pumzi as “creative, very inviting and well shot.”
“The idea of it links a very dramatic idea to a reality of what is happening in the world. I think this is what film is all about. This is why I make movies to raise people from one consciousness to another to allow them to know that you may take for granted the glass of water you have to drink, but you shouldn’t anymore.”

Photos/ Duncan Ndotono

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NGANGALITO GETS A HOME THEATRE

Soundafrica sales rep Ray Omwaka presents Ng'ang'alito with his runnners up prize of Sony Home Theatre System and a pack of 50 CDs
Ng'ang'alito poses with his prize of Sony Home Theatre System

Tusker Project Fame 3 finalist Bernard ‘Ngangalito’ Nganga was last weekend awarded by SoundAfrica a Sony Home Theatre System and a pack of 50 CDs. This is in addition to him two year recording of which he is yet to utilise and hit the recording booth.
Ngangalito who is known by his fanatics, as Superlito is currently a host of Citizen TV’s reality show Jitokeze.

VICK'S THOUGHTS

So true. The abortionist were not aborted. Give the unborn a chance to live.

NIGERIAN BRODA A KING OF CUSOMISED MERCHANDISE

Alexander Amosu, the young UK-based Nigerian entrepreneur who just made the Guinness Book of World records for designing the World's most expensive visiting Lagos next week.
The 34-year-old will be introducing his Luxury Line on his tour.
Just so you know he is also responsible for the world's most expensive phones.
Ask music Goliaths like Akon, Fiddy – or if you so wish 50 Cent – and Ne Yo.
Amosu pictured with Ne Yo Alex has been lauded by the world's biggest media organisations as one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the UK.
Amosu pictured with Kelly Roland


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VICK'S THOUGHTS

True story, people, i tell you.

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WORLD’S TOP DANCE TROUPES FOR KENYAN FESTIVAL ON PEACE

A number of dance professionals from various African countries will converge in Kenya for the Africa Dance Conference and Festival in December 9 to 13.
The festival to be held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre will seek to highlight the need for peace and stability in Africa through dance.
The conference and festival will host dance companies from Jamaica, Haiti, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Nigeria, Mali, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Ghana, Cuba, Sierra Leone, Netherlands, Tanzania, Britain, United States, Canada, India among other countries. Kenyan talent that will be at the festival include Sarakasi, Safari Cats, Kanda King, Shangilia and Bomas of Kenya Dancers among others. The event will also feature award winning Johannesburg choreographer Gregory Maqoma whose work has been heralded by international dance critics as the “new visionary dance voice for Africa”.
The festival is sponsored by Artaction and Purple Images productions.

BONNY’S STRUGGLE TO GET MPS TO SEE KENYA BURNING

Boniface Mwangi, the CNN photojournalist of the year, exhibited the gory images from Kenya Burning, which is a collection of post-election violence photos taken by the photojournalists at the height of the violence early last year when the country teetered on the brink of civil war.
The exhibition dubbed Conference On Citizenship And Development: Reflections On Change was at the Hilton Hotel Ballroom for two days, October 28 and 29.
This comes at a time when their attempts to have the book delivered to the MPs had been thwarted.
Boniface says, “They refused to our request to have the book dropped at the MPs pigeon holes at the Continental House offices because parliamentarians don’t accept free things.”In support of the cause, the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission chairman Bethwell Kiplagat’s attempts to have the post-election pictures displayed in Parliament for MPs to have a feel of what political violence means, hit a stone wall.
“That book needs to be taken to Parliament. It should be exhibited there. Let all the MPs see it and see what violence amounts to, let all others, business people and all, see this and see what Kenyans went through last year,” Bethwell said earlier this month.
Veteran political cartoonist Gado will also be exhibiting at the same venue.

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JUST A BAND LAUNCHES THEIR NEW ALBUM

Kenyan rock group Just A Band launched their sophomore album, 82 last month at the Godown Arts Centre.
The band is made up of trio Dan, Bill and Jim who met while studying at Kenyatta University.
They funded their first instrument purchase by selling Bill’s VW Combi van to a Volkswagen enthusiast.
Their debut album, Scratch to Reveal, was released on May 2008 accompanied by self-made music videos for the singles Fly, Iwinyo Piny and the popular Hey!
The song Iwinyo Piny, accompanied by a self-made animated music video, received little airplay on radio stations due to its unconventional musical style.
The band, however, gained popularity through underground channels and now they have become a musical force to reckon with.
Kiss TV and Kiss 100 sponsored the gig.

Here is one of my favourite joints from their debut album called Hey.

CAROL RADULL TAKES UP NEW TV ROLE

Radio Jambo’s Programmes Controller Carol Radul took up a new role as the host of a weekly show on Supersport Select called Simba Super Soccer.
“My role entails hosting the weekly show that focuses on what is happening in local football, and in particular the Kenyan Premier League. I have a permanent co-host - football analyst James Wokabi - who has been doing the show with Bernard Otieno for over a year. Each week we have a guest or two to discuss the games of the past weekend and look forward to what’s coming the next weekend,” Carol said.
The football enthusiast got the hook up when she was approached by the show’s producer Mark Moss and asked if she was interested in the position after the former presenter Bernard Otieno moved on. “Mark, his business partner Fareed Khimani and the shows executive producer, also Supersport Head of Africa, Gary Rathborne, asked me to give it a try. If I do a good job in the preliminary shows, then we take it from there.”
If you liked her on the show last night, you will be seeing more of her every Wednesday night at 9pm, with a repeat at 11am.
Carol, who has been fighting for the recognition and fan interest in the Kenya Premier League (KPL), said that the support is still dismal. “But with investors like Supersport, there is hope. Supersport beams the KPL to Africa and that in itself is growing interest in the league. They also pay the league for television rights and that means clubs have some money to use to keep afloat. Most of the issues that affect Kenyan football, don’t directly affect the KPL, but the national team and youth development more.”

HOLLYWOOD ACTOR GRACES FILM FESTIVAL

Hollywood actor Giancarlo Esposito was in Kenya for the opening of the fourth edition of the Kenya International Film Festival at the National Museums of Kenya. The film festival that concluded on October 31 saw the screening of 280 films from 45 countries during the ten-day film festival.
Giancarlo is known for his portrayal of FBI agent Mike Giardello on the TV crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street. That role reflected both his black and Italian heritage. He played it 1998–1999 until the series' cancellation. Giancarlo directed the movie Gospel Hill.
The festival was held from October 21 to 31.

ERIC BACK FROM NEW YORK READY FOR KENYAN SCREENING

After a successful tour in New York where his production of his own musical stage play Mofaya the Musical was performed, Eric Wainaina has described the tour as “A rollercoaster ride, non-stop adrenaline high.”
Eric and the Mofaya crew will stage the play for Kenyan audiences at the Go Down Art Centre starting November 11 to December 6.


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EMMY KOSGEI LAUNCHES DVD VERSION OF THIRD ALBUM

On Sunday evening, Emmy Kosgei launched the DVD album titled Taunet Nelel that features all the music videos from her earlier launched third album with a similar title.
St Andrews Church, Nairobi played host to the launch that saw other gospel musicians also perform on stage. Amongst these singers were the likes of Daddy Owen, Esther Wahome, Eunice Njeri and Jimmy.
Speaking to Word Is on why she decided to launch her DVD now, Emmy explained that since releasing the audio last year, many fans from all over Kenya had been requesting for her music videos. The gospel artiste also has a clothes label under her name and serves a high profile clientele.

HOMEBOYZ ANIMATION SERIES TO SHOW ON UK AND US TV

An African folk tales animation series co-produced by Homeboyz’ and UK’s Tiger Aspect, is set to debut on BBC’s Cbeebies and Disney’s Playhouse early next year.
The series dubbed Tinga Tinga Tales is a 52-part programme based on Kenyan and Tanzanian folk tales.
The cast is lead by a cheeky monkey, with the imagery hand painted and animated in an explosive mix of African colour, pattern and music. The style is based on the famous Tinga Tinga art of Tanzania.
Homeboyz’ CEO Mike Rabar said, “We are ecstatic.” The one-year project they have been working on has finally seen the light of day.
Mike reckons that currently big movie corporations are outsourcing in Asia because “it’s cheaper” and now with the option of Kenya, there is a future of young animator, now that this has opened up the film industry.
The show’s images were hand-painted by local artists, then computer animated in Homeboyz’s Nairobi studio before being shipped to the UK.

SANAIPEI BARES HER SOUL

Sanaipei Tande’s latest release would have you thinking she is planning to take up philanthropy. The Kiss 100 presenter released Niokoe, a sad song about the dilapidated state Kenya is in, in the humanitarian department.
“I was inspired by the suffering of the children that's been there from time immemorial and from what I witnessed in the streets and on television. Images of people suffering in ways that can make your heart bleed. More so the fact that those who have the ability and responsibility to help are doing nothing about it. I needed to remind them of what's going on.”
Once you watch the video you can’t help but notice that the Najuta singer has taken a completely different tangent from the party and love songs she is famed for.
“First, let it be understood, that this is not a step in any direction that will define my style in music, it is simply situations that I see and to some extent experience that profoundly impact my life, and if I have the ability to bring the situations to light then I do and I will.”
So what are her future musical plans? “I'm in the process of transforming not only my music but my entire image; it's a whole-nother ball game next year.”