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Celebrating DJ Afro: Super Commentator Helped me Get a Wife!

Posted on by Kibaki Muthamia

When people meet DJ Afro Amigos for the first time, they pause. Unspoken questions hang in the air like clouds before a downpour.

Is this really DJ Afro? Is this the super commentator?

Well, DJ Afro doesn’t look like a comedian on the street. But, then how should comedians look like?

He’s probably the most unassuming person you’ll ever meet. A polite, friendly demeanor conceals an extremely creative, hilarious mind.

DJ Afro and TV Presenter Larry Madowo in an undated interview on NTV (file image)

I met DJ Afro circa 2006 in Rongai, a dusty backyard in the outskirts of Nairobi. I was in high school, then. Rongai wasn’t much a posh party spot.

The favourite hangout spots atleast for student gangs was in ‘Pay-per-view’ video dens. We’d spend weekends watching King Fu and Vietnam War flicks.

Except, DJ Afro was a live commentator. The creative now credited as the pioneer of an entire industry was starting out. A broke chap, he didn’t have equipment – he’d headline movies ‘live live’.

It was mad fun! He’d later move to Nakuru, and start recording.

Ten years later, I’m done with college, and on my first job as an insurance broker. Nairobi is ruthless to chaps on their first jobs, especially a vocation based on commission.

It’s a tightrope between starvation and God’s mercies in dark, cramped bedsitters.

Two things happened, mere coincidences that ultimately shaped my entire life.

One, DJ Afro re-appeared into life, albeit by sheer providence. My brother would gift me his old TV, and VCD machine and his prized VCD collection.

Two, I got a new neighbor – a bubbly, chatty girl with long legs and a gap on her upper teeth.

Well, a student and a chap on their first jobs in Nairobi share the same life of penury. Nothing brings souls together than a shared enemy.

Hunger was our mutual enemy.

She’d fall in love. But, she first fell in love with DJ Afro – featured heavily on my VCD collection. I’d say we curl up on the coach, but we didn’t have a coach.

We’d sprawl on a thin mattress and watch Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren single handedly devour entire armies, Kung Fu protège’s avenge their master’s deaths…..

All along, DJ Afro would be doing his signature thing: Arrrrrrrrrrrrrright, Asanta sana……

She’d become my girlfriend, and partner in life and crime.

To date, nothing evokes fonder memories than rainy evenings in our cold bedsitter – listening to hilarious, cracking side shows by DJ Afro!

We had one luxury – when an occasional client bought my insurance policies, or a benevolent relative sent her some pocket money, we’d splurge on a 1ltr Fanta soda and a packet of cakes.

We are marking our sixth anniversary, and like all others – we have a Fanta tradition.

Purchase a 1ltr Fanta soda, and a packet of cakes for an outdoor picnic.

Turns out, this Fanta tradition could win us amazing prizes in the FIFA WORLD CUP 2022 ™ TROPHY TOUR BUY AND WIN PROMOTION.

The Promotion is open till 30th June to participants over the age of 18. It’s quite simple, really.

Purchase Coca‑Cola®, Fanta® and/or Sprite® in the 1Lt Returnable Glass Bottle, 1.25Lt PET and 2Lt PET bottles easily identifiable by a lime green crown.

Peel off the crown to reveal an eight (8) digit alphanumeric (ANN) code under the crown of the bottle, which consumers will activate by sending an SMS to the short code number 40111 thereby entering a draw.

There’s the Grand Prize of a trip to watch a FIFA World Cup™ match in Qatar – 5 prizes up for grabs. Fancy a rare chance to grab a A VIP FIFA World Cup 2022™ Trophy viewing experience.

Here’s your cue!

Besides, there’s assorted daily cash prizes between Ksh50, Ksh100 instantly sent to the winners via either M-Pesa, Airtel Money or T-Kash.

Oh, wait – there’s airtime, too! Ksh 10 or Ksh20 for your Airtel, Safaricom or Telkom lines.

While the FIFA WORLD CUP 2022 ™ TROPHY TOUR BUY AND WIN PROMOTION” closes on 30th June 2022, the prize redemption window is open till 31st July 2022.

My First Flight: Of Getting Lost in Wilson Airport Looking for My Plane!

Posted on by Kibaki Muthamia

If I could live to a ripe old age, say three hundred years, one memory would stick. The memories of my first flight. The irritable dementia may blur names and faces of family and friends, but not this first flight.

It came quicker in life than I had thought, thanks to a considerate client. I had grown up in a tiny village we can rightly term as a ‘non-flying’ backyard. I didn’t know anyone who had ever been on a plane. That’s the kind of excitement. I was making history!

It was a local flight to review a waterfront resort in Lamu. We had a short stopover in Mombasa.

I didn’t sleep much for two weeks. I’d wake up in cold sweats – check mail for date and time of travel. I’d not miss my first flight!

An aerial view from an airplane overflying the Kenyan Rift Valley (file image)

On D-Day, I left home at 1100 Am. Take off was tagged at 0300 Pm. I realized later it was a little too early. I hadn’t been to Wilson Airport before. I took a cab from town. Once I spotted the airport entrance, I asked to end the trip. That’s number two mistake.

I didn’t know the firm’s office was three miles further. It was a maze. I kept walking in circles, with the relentless Nairobi sun on my back! Bless the random guards I asked for directions, a growing patch of sweat on my lower back.

The lounge was big – and for my three-hour wait – read everything that could be read in that lounge. The glossy magazines, wall posters – my seatmate’s Whatsapp chats, everything.

The clearance was easy. The normal security check through a scanner, and boarding documents.

I had my ID card, passport, birth certificate, yellow fever vaccination and a copy of my father’s ID card – just in case. Turns out, only my identity card was necessary for a local flight.

We emerged onto the tarmac, with a small plane lined up and a couple of bigger ones on both ends of the horizon. I was pretty nervous. With me, there were maybe ten, fifteen or a hundred people. I was too busy looking to count.

An unseen dilemma came up. I needed a boarding photo. I needed evidence if my village would take me serious. On my turn, instead of the ticket, I handed the lady my phone – and moved back a couple of paces back – with the plane on my background.

The lady had to come take my photo, showing the firm’s signage at the back.

A bemused line of passengers stood back, gawking at me. For a minute, corporate executives had to wait!

We board, but I don’t know how to look for my seat number. I was either blocking or obstructing the way, till someone offered to help. We got take off clearance, I felt motion and soon – lift off. Butterflies!

My first flight, I felt a mixture of apprehension, angst, & overwhelming happiness. I WAS FLYING!

A minute of climbing, and we leveled out. I settled back, and looked out the small window – the airport seemed like a kindergartner’s clay mock up. I realized that it feels exactly like a car ride, except that the car is thousands of feet aloft!

Occasional bumps! How now? It was frightening, and absolutely fantastic. I saw someone burp and lurch into a paper bag across the aisle. I had already tucked my sickness bag into my pocket – that’s a souvenir!

A few minutes in, a saw an hostess – absolutely stunning – is wheeling a cart down the aisle. It’s packed with coffee, sandwiches and assorted snacks – and soda!

Well, with the turbulence – I wasn’t risking it with hot coffee. I pointed to a 1ltr Sprite in a returnable glass bottle. It’s halfway. The hostess, though – they have a knack to spot first-time flyers.

“Have fun, brother.” She says. She points to the lime-green cap on the bottle.

“Perhaps, it’s you lucky day. Unaeza shida flight kwenda Qatar ya World Cup!”

Somewhere in the clouds, I got an entry into the FIFA WORLD CUP 2022 ™ TROPHY TOUR BUY AND WIN PROMOTION. I’d send it after landing.

The Promotion is open till 30th June to participants over the age of 18. It’s quite simple, really.

Purchase Coca‑Cola®, Fanta® and/or Sprite® in the 1Lt Returnable Glass Bottle, 1.25Lt PET and 2Lt PET bottles easily identifiable by a lime green crown. Peel off the crown to reveal an eight (8) digit alphanumeric (ANN) code under the crown of the bottle, which consumers will activate by sending an SMS to the short code number 40111 thereby entering a draw.

There’s the Grand Prize of a trip to watch a FIFA World Cup™ match in Qatar – 5 prizes up for grabs. Fancy a rare chance to grab a A VIP FIFA World Cup 2022™ Trophy viewing experience? Here’s your cue!

Besides, there’s assorted daily cash prizes between Ksh50, Ksh100 instantly sent to the winners via either M-Pesa, Airtel Money or T-Kash. Oh, wait – there’s airtime, too! Ksh 10 or Ksh20 for your Airtel, Safaricom or Telkom lines.

While the FIFA WORLD CUP 2022 ™ TROPHY TOUR BUY AND WIN PROMOTION” closes on 30th June 2022, the prize redemption window is open till 31st July 2022.

My Lesson from a Difficult Ruracio: Patience is Not Necessarily a Virtue!

Posted on by Kibaki Muthamia

Life will conspire and shatter basic tenets that kept you grounded on the straight and narrow.

This is what ‘adulting’ is all about.

As I write, I’m trying not to exceed the recommended daily quota for painkiller tablets. I’m nursing sore ribs.

I belong to a Facebook motoring group. It’s a tight mid-30’s group, young professionals united by love for flashy cars and adventure.

There’s been talk of organizing a charity drive. That’s one of the group’s initiatives. One of the active members, Makau – from Machakos – said he had a Ruracio planned, and invited us all.

He had asked if someone on the group could make a decent elder. Well, what for? We had Group Admin – with all powers bestowed by the hallowed cyber gods.

I ticked YES to the invitation. So did thirty other guys. On the Friday, I’d join the convoy on the outskirts of the city for the long drive to the bride’s rural home in Timau.

But, hey – have you been to a Kenyan Ruracio

It’s a little like upcountry funerals we attended back in campus. It’s basically an excuse for a road trip, and endless partying.

Waiting to receive us was a group of sour-faced elders.

Turns out, Patience is not necessarily a virtue. It can be milked to such an extent that it becomes a source of endless pain and antagonism patience.

In the case of this Ruracio – an empty, cold bed for aspiring love birds.

We didn’t know that a long convoy of flashy cars would be a fly in the soup. All the elders saw was opulence – the dowry quadrupled.

By God, didn’t they re-define stubborn? To make matters worse, we didn’t have elders.

We had Group Admin, a talkative chap in khakis, a Stetson hat and a million tattoos on his arm and neck.

The elders couldn’t even agree to a sit down.

How could we explain that we are an online family escorting our brother? Evening crept in fast – and, it was called for the next day.

No worry, the gang says – let’s hit town!

Well, Timau Town is a sleepy farm town on the navel end of Mt. Kenya.

As a town, it’s painfully lethargic, with that excruciating, ethereal way farmers choose to lead their lives.

I mean, an average farmer in Timau lords over a hundred acres of wheat and potatoes, with tractors and assorted dozers with a net worth in the millions. Yet, he dons a patched leather jacket, and cheap gum boots.

We broke rank and flooded Timau, the town. No arranged accommodation, we mostly had to tuck up in our cars overnight.

Hey, Timau is a furnace hot by day and as cold as a witch’s tit by night. I almost shivered to death, and woke up with painful cramps.

We regroup on Saturday morning. With creased khakis, sour moods and bad breaths.

The elders took time. The first one arrived at noon.

They’d waste no time in inflating ten-fold, the agreed dowry, with reasons.

Oh, she has a degree.

Oh, her poor mother used to piggy bank her to a clinic 30 miles away for her Polio jabs.

By evening, the elders still insisted on a million.

Half the group peeled off and started the drive back to Nairobi. I decided to wait up. A few other guys, too. We called the groom aside, and issued an ultimatum.

If they cannot agree to existing terms, we are leaving. The now gloomy groom, in turn, texted that ultimatum to his bride – whom he hadn’t yet seen.

Well, the father-in-law suddenly thawed out. I’ll probably never know what the daughter told her dad.

The million-bob shilling demand was suddenly flipped to seven shillings, in sparkling silver and, unbelievably – a cold Coca Cola.

Brethren, as people scrambled in their glove boxes looking for one-shilling coins, I drove out to Timau Town CBD, to get a cold Coca Cola drink.

Ultimately, it had to be the 1.25ltr bottle – as cold as they had wanted. Our de facto elder, the Group Admin, handed it over.

The elders made a sullen show of handing over the bride, shrouded in colorful lessos, accompanied by her mother.

Towards 6pm, we drove out of Timau, like bats out of hell.

As I drove alone, listening to the drumming of the tires on the road, I had a nagging query in my mind.

Our belligerent Father-in-Law, does he know of the ongoing FIFA WORLD CUP 2022 ™ TROPHY TOUR BUY AND WIN PROMOTION?

Who knows, he was within reach of awesome prizes……

The Promotion is open till 30th June 2022 to participants over the age of 18. It’s quite simple, really.

Purchase Coca Cola, Fanta or Sprite in the 1Lt Returnable Glass Bottle, 1.25Lt PET and 2Lt PET bottles easily identifiable by a lime green crown.

Peel off the crown to reveal an eight (8) digit alphanumeric (ANN) code under the crown of the bottle, which consumers will activate by sending an SMS to the short code number 40111 thereby entering a draw.

There’s the Grand Prize of a trip to watch a FIFA World Cup™ match in Qatar – 5 prizes up for grabs. Fancy a rare chance to grab a A VIP FIFA World Cup 2022™ Trophy viewing experience?

Here’s your cue!

Besides, there’s assorted daily cash prizes between Ksh50, Ksh100 instantly sent to the winners via either M-Pesa, Airtel Money or T-Kash. Oh, wait – there’s airtime, too! Ksh 10 or Ksh20 for your Airtel, Safaricom or Telkom lines.

While the FIFA WORLD CUP 2022 ™ TROPHY TOUR BUY AND WIN PROMOTION” closes on 30th June 2022, the prize redemption window is open till 31st July 2022.

Hey, get a cold Coca Cola drink and check under the crown. You may win a ticket to watch the World Cup in Qatar!