Moses Trubadur is officially back into circulation. In a recent contact with the Kenyan musician, he said that he has been unavailable, both due to circumstances and urgent engagements. He appreciated the fact that some Kenyans were very concerned after he reportedly went out of circulation in Stockholm.
When he returned, he had an assortment of video clips, some of which have already been uploaded at Youtube. The clips were fetched from the archives and KSB wishes to share them with readers. No doubt many Kenyans in Stockholm will recognize themselves in the clips which reminds one of the good old days.
We begin with a clip when Wangari Maathai came to Stockholm soon after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize some years ago. The Narc government had just seized power and Kenyans met her in Stockholm to dig out from her details about the new government. Trubadur was the main entertainer on that day. KSB takes this opportunity to welcome Trubadur back to business in Stockholm.
Stockholm has been rather quiet following the post election crisis in Kenya, a phenomena which pundits have linked to the need for a “cooling off period” from the post election crisis and lack of parties after party organizers also went underground.
Sound of Blackness, an Entertainment group that took Kenyans by storm last year, has suddenly gone quiet. The last time they threw a bash was on December 15th. Kenyans in Stockholm went through Christmas and New year without a single opportunity to shake stuff. Bachelors and Bachelorettes who expected to take advantage of the Christmas and New year Party opportunities to lay or get laid after some kinda a hook up had to make do with closed circuit link ups of known friends where not much usually happens.
Open seduction among Kenyans in Stockholm is rare because of two things. Once it’s known openly that so and so is scratching with this or that Mkenya, both the dude and the duddet begin to run the risk of not catching a new prey and, according to one Bachelor who spoke to KSB last year, the big problem is that once the “paring process” is identified, potential customers (especially the ladies) begin to keep their distance and if you are just looking for a one night stand, the thing may be interpreted to mean that you are already hooked. The situation is more serious with the ladies who fear being referred to with negative epithets – anafyekwa vi deadly.
A virile Kenyan dude who had a kinky reputation of orbiting around the central axis of almost any Kenyan girl who could consume beer got the name of “mufyekaji” from the girls but only after they had been fyekad. He reportedly holds the record of having brought down at least ten pants in a span of one year before the girls eventually blew the lid on him. There was total panic among girls in Stockholm last year when the guy got entangled in a legal snare with a Swedish woman who succeeded in putting him out of circulation.
The panic was linked to possible HIV business and that kinda a stuff. Talking about the “Party draught”, it’s the worst ever in Stockholm and may be the community needs to communicate with some “Aid agencies” who could send in “Entertainment supplies” and fix something at Norsborg because the Disco famine in Stockholm is also linked to post election violence which saw DJs and Music groups hooked on their TV/Computer screens to follow what was happening to their relatives in Kenya.
February, Match, April and even May have not witnessed the calling of a “Grand disco”. The situation looks gloomy because indications are that for the first time since 1998, the Kenya Grand Nyama Choma Festival may also go missing on the Menu if organizers do not volunteer to come up and fix the event.
Leaders of the Kenya United Weflare Association (KUWA) like Mark Gaya, Pastor Beatrice Kamau, Laban Mberi, Enock Otuga, Jared Aruka, Gerry Midenyo, Joseph Goga, Kenneth Wamburi Munge aka Ofore, Peter Gitau aka Man Gitash and other “Party veterans” who fixed Nyam chom from 1998-2003 have gone into retirement while Kenyans who filled in between 2004-2007 have not shown any interest in organizing the event.
If it doesn’t take place this year, Kenyans will have to make do with Mini-Nyam-choms organized around friends and close contacts. KSB will continue to monitor where Nyama choma smoke is likely to show up in the skies of Stockholm as the sun opens up and as wazungus also download their clothes along sandy Stockholm beaches to burn their skins, a compulsory Mzungu way of enjoying the summer.
You rarely see a Kenyan lazing around these beaches topless, shoeless and with an underwear even if you scan all beaches in Stocky. If it is burning hot, the typical Kenyan will prefer to grill near some shady tree just to take shelter under the tree ie run away from the heat when wazungu prostrate themselves in that same sun for hours. Is it because of melanin or is it simply because many Kenyans in Stockholm were brought up in shags or cities where going to the beach was not part of the vocabulary?
Barry Owino called me this week and hinted that some Nyama event could be cooking but he is yet to return with the details. We can only hope that Barry ties the strings meticulously and works out the magic because it will be a huge negative if the Grand Nyam-Chom fails to surface this year. I hope that the Bagarmossen Church will call upon the Lord to help Barry pull the thing.
Okoth Osewe
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