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Award-winning Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu is set to make another stride in Hollywood after she was chosen to direct The Black Kids, a film adapted from Christina Hammonds Reed’s upcoming debut YA novel. Wanuri will get the opportunity to work with among others Allison Davis - a world-renowned…

A new poetic song by Kenyan rapper King Kaka, born Kevin Ombima, has gone viral hours after it was released on Saturday. In the hard-hitting song dubbed ‘Wajinga Nyinyi’, Kaka calls out the Kenyan electorate for voting in selfish, scandalous and deceitful leaders. He says voters’ poor choices are…

Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o was among recipients of this year's New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) awards announced on Wednesday. 36-year-old Nyong’o won Best Lead Actress for Us, an American horror movie released in March 2019 and which she starred alongside Winston Duke,…

Kenyan singer Esther Akoth, alias Akothee, collapsed on stage due to fatigue, her manager Nelson Oyugi has said. A video showing Akothee falling on stage while performing at the Luo Festival over the weekend went viral on social media. Speaking during an interview with Radio Citizen, Mr. Oyugi said…

Singer Esther Akoth, alias Akothee, was reportedly rushed to the hospital early Sunday morning after she collapsed while performing at the Luo Night Festival at Carnivore Restaurant in Nairobi. A video shared on social media showed Akothee, who was performing along with her dancers, blacking out…

American-Senegalese singer Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam, better known as Akon, has begun building his own “futuristic” city in Africa. In a recent interview with Nick Cannon, the 46-year-old R&B singer indicated that the construction of the city dubbed “Akon City” started in March this year…

Ronnie Kariuki, a US-born Kenyan actor, has featured in a Kenyan TV series titled 'The Trap House.'  The Trap House, which premiered last year, is a weekly TV Show that airs on NTV every Wednesday at 7:30 pm. The film tells the story of three Kenyan university students who are brought…

Celebrated Tanzanian singer Ali Kiba has released a new song that appears to be dedicated to his estranged Kenyan wife, Amina Khalef. In the song dubbed ‘Mshumaa’, the bongo flavor star begs Ms. Amina to come back in his life as he misses her. “Nakumiss…Tena! Tutonana, Hata Mungu akipanga leo…

Google has deleted from YouTube 'Tarimbo', a controversial song done by Kenyan music group Ethic Entertainment. This comes a week after Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) CEO Ezekiel Mutua wrote to Google asking it to pull down the song from their platforms.  Mutua described the song as ‘…

Kenyan comedian James Anthony Njenga, better known by his stage name Njenga Mswahili was on Thursday morning found dead. The lifeless body of the Churchill Show entertainer was discovered on a rail track in Dagoretti, Nairobi. In a statement, Churchill’s Laugh Industry said Njenga was run over by a…