MEET THE FORMER SAND DEALER MINTING MILLIONS PER MONTH IN REAL ESTATE

For Andrew Kamau, selling building materials was all his day’s work diary would read a few years ago. The city’s high-end estates — Lavington, Kileleshwa and Runda — provided him with a reliable stream of customers. “I used to supply sand, ballasts, stones from Ndarugu quarry and from the little earnings, I was able to […]

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LUPITA NYONG’O INVITED TO VOTE ON HOLLYWOOD OSCARS

LOS ANGELES Kenyan Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, Somalia’s Barkhad Abdi, “Happy” songster Pharrell Williams and Irish-German star Michael Fassbender are among 271 actors newly invited to join Hollywood’s Oscar-bestowing Academy, organisers have said. Other non-US invitees include Britain’s Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan, as well as Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki and Israeli-born Palestinian director […]

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#KENYA’S LUPITA WINS FILM RIGHTS TO AMERICANAH

KENYAN star actress and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o has optioned and got the film rights to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest novel, Americanah. In an interview with Arise Entertainment two months ago, the Nigerian author hinted that she will be working with Lupita. She said that Lupita read the novel, loved it and “will be making […]

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