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Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o scooped two awards at the 51st NAACP Image Awards held in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 22nd. The 36-year-old bagged the best actress award for her role in Jordan Peele’s horror film ‘US’ while her book ‘Sulwe’ was named the outstanding literary work for…

Ezekiel Mutua, the CEO of Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) has banned the screening of gay-themed Hindi movie dubbed ‘Shubh Mangal Zyada Savdhan’ in Kenya. Mutua said the film, which premiered on Imax on Friday, February 21st, “has scenes involving children in homosexual practices and openly…

Tanzanian gospel songstress Rose Muhando has responded to claims that she is in a love affair with controversial Kenyan televangelist James Ng’ang’a. In an interview with Baraka FM this week, Muhando said she has never been in a love relationship with Apostle Ng’ang’a, explaining that the clergyman…

Social media users were disheartened after a video showing disheveled Kenyan scripter Charles Matathia wandering in the streets sent viral online on Wednesday. In the video shared by Twitter user @MrJemedari, a seemingly unwell Matathia is seen dressed in an old jacket and carrying a dirty sack on…

Celebrated Ugandan teen actress Nikita Pearl Waligwa is dead. The 15-year-old award-winning film starlet died on Saturday night while receiving treatment at TMR International Hospital in Kampala, Uganda after a long battle with brain cancer. Waligwa was first diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2016…

Award-winning Kenyan gospel singer Dennis Mwangi, popularly known as Papa Dennis, has been found dead in Nairobi. The singer’s lifeless body was found near Jubilee Party Headquarters in Pangani, Nairobi in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Mwangi is said to have fallen from the 7th floor of Kirima…

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…