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By Hot Secrets, on August 28th, 2010
Ragga heartthrob Redsan will be relaunch his Versatility album besides American siren Keri Hilson in October. This comes after launching the same album last December launched his flanked by Jamaican sibling duo Brick and Lace.
The Yule Pale hitmaker explained why his album hasn’t hit the streets yet since then. “There were massive delays with the management and distributors that were handling the album, even I don’t have a copy,” He said.
The album is the fourth attempt by Redsan released under Dutty Sounds Records, Monalisa Entertainment and Miami Vibe.
“The album, like it’s name describes the diversity in the genres of music and artistes featured in it.” The album boasts of collaborations with music industry heavy weights like Brick and Lace, AY, Collo, Shinde of Tattu and Kiss 100’s Sanaipei Tande.”
Redsan’s US based management company Monalisa Entertainment and Miami Vibe are responsible for Keri Hilson’s concert in Nairobi.
 Brick and Lace during the December launch
Keri recently told MTV News her travels to Africa would influence her next album, No Boys Allowed, slated for a late-2010 release.
“I’ve been to Nigeria, I’ve been to South Africa, three cites in Africa [in all]. I gather music from these regions, and African music is very drum-heavy. It was very inspiring. I’m definitely going to be using some of that inspiration.”
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By Hot Secrets, on August 28th, 2010
Luol Deng branded by BBC as the multi-millionaire face of the Chicago Bulls, and one of President Barack Obama’s favourite basketball players, is heading back home to Sudan.
The Team GB basketball team was last home 20 years ago, after he and his family fled the civil war in Southern Sudan.
BBC reporter Tim Franks followed Luol Deng to Kenya to meet Sudanese refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp before he embarked on an emotional return to his home country, where people are preparing to vote in a referendum on independence from the north.
Luol Deng’s visit to Kenya and Southern Sudan will be featured on the BBC World Service on September 2.
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By Hot Secrets, on August 28th, 2010
Football star Allan Wanga has scored one as a daddy. Allan and long time girlfriend Brenda Mulinya – a journalist working with NTV – are proud parents of a baby boy, whom they named Jayden Johari Wanga.
Baby JJ was born early Monday August 23 morning at Aga Khan hospital.
Allan was a striker for FC Inter Baku in Azerbaijan and he is credited for helping the team qualify for the European Champions. He currently plays for Sofapaka and Kenya’s national team Harambee Stars
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By Hot Secrets, on August 28th, 2010
Kenyan filmmaker Hawa Essuman will showcase her latest film festival sensation Soul Boy, at the first ever-African woman film festival.
Hawa is one of the 23 female filmmakers who will make history at the first Women of the Sun Film Festival (WoS Film Festival) which will feature 25 films from 15 African countries with 15 of the filmmakers present at the screenings.
The seven-day festival to celebrate women filmmakers in Africa will be screened at The Bioscope, Johannesburg, South Africa from September 2 to 9 and is staged in conjunction with the Goethe Institute, the Gauteng Film Commission (GFC) and the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC).
The WoS organissers say the festival offers a unique opportunity to see great films and to meet the exceptional women behind them.
“The time is ripe to change the widely held belief that filmmaking is a male domain,” says Eve Rantseli, Director of Women of the Sun. “Women in film have much to say and are saying it with unique vision and flair. The launch of this annual women’s film festival will be the start of getting women filmmakers and their works part of the mainstream.”
Soul boy is directed by Hawa, written by Billy Kahora and produced by Marie Steinmann and Tom Tykwer.
It is a story about 14 year-old Abila who lives with his parents in Kibera, one of the largest slums in East Africa. One morning the teenager discovers his father ill and delirious. Someone has stolen his soul, mumbles the father as he sits huddled in a corner.
Abila is shocked and confused but wants to help his father and goes in search of a suitable cure. Supported by his friend Shiku who is the same age as him, he learns that his father has gambled his soul away in the company of a spiritual woman.
The teenager doesn’t want to believe it and sets about looking for the witch. When he finally discovers her in the darkest corner of the ghetto, she gives him seven challenging tasks to save his father’s lost soul. Abila embarks on an adventurous journey which leads him right through the microcosm of his home town
Guests include Jyoti Mistry (South Africa), Tagreed Elsanhouri (Sudan), Fanta Nacro (Burkino Faso), highly acclaimed Algerian director Djamila Sahraoui, Zimbabwe’s award winning novelist and film director, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and the first Angolan woman to ever make a feature film, Maria Joao Ganga.
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By Hot Secrets, on August 28th, 2010
Kenyan ex-model and designer Liz Ogumbo who seems to have relocated to South Africa will be featured on Studio 53.
The singer who headlined one of the eviction shows for the ongoing voyeuristic Big Brother All Stars, will talk about her change of career from a qualified computer scientist to trotting the globe as a model, gracing catwalks from Paris to New York.
Liz came back home from the US in 2005, she started a modeling agency but it did not take off as she had hoped it would. She decided to diversify into another realm of the fashion industry and thus Imani House of Fashion was born.
She invested in fabric and a number of sewing machines, and then set about scouting for a tailor to interpret her designs. The first dress she designed was for herself but she promptly ploughed back the Sh5, 000 estimated value of the outfit into her fledgling business. “I later sold the dress to friend and used the money to buy more fabric,” she recalls.
Another strong beautiful woman featured in this season of Studio 53 is South African songbird Lira who has landed a dramatic acting role in a full-length feature film. ‘The Italian director Antonio Falduto spotted my picture on the cover of a magazine and he said ‘I want her to portray a particular character in my movie’, which just happened to be the supporting lead role,” said Lira.
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By robby431, on August 28th, 2010
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By Hot Secrets, on August 28th, 2010
 Gerald Olewe, Gado, Youssou N’Dour, Lilian Geturo and James Kanja
Kenya’s veteran newspaper cartoonist Gado and the brains behind TV show XYZ, blogs about his recent visit to Dakar where he meet with musical great Youssou N’Dour.
Gado writes, “As you know, XYZ is a show about Kenya, produced by Kenyans, for Kenyans. And yet, it manages to get attention from people all over the world. And we are always very happy when our 100% Kenyan show crosses the borders!”
Apparently the award winning singer saw the XYZ show and extended and invite for four of the production team members behind the satirical show.
 On the XYZ blog, Gado says, “The purpose of the visit was for our team (XYZ production manager Lilian Geturo, director James Kanja, head puppet maker Gerald Olewe and myself) to conduct a 2-day workshop for TFM TV, a Senegalese television station owned by Youssou N’Dour. Yes, TFM TV is planning to produce an XYZ cousin there!
“Youssou, who also owns a newspaper and radio station in Dakar, is a fan of XYZ and has been following the show’s progress. We had been in touch for a while, looking for ways to collaborate.
“The next step will be for members of TFM TV to come visit our Nairobi studios and be trained by our puppet-making team here. Youssou believes that this kind of pan-African collaboration is the way forward for media projects in Africa, and I certainly hope that this is the beginning of a long and beneficial relation between our two teams and our two countries.”
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By dubbedmobilemovies.com, on August 28th, 2010
Beyond the news of their split, rumors are running rampant regarding just why this seemingly happy couple is no longer together. Did Liam cheat on Miley? Did a photo of Cyrus and Adam Sevani actually play a role in this demise? It’s all speculation at this point.
Did Miley trade in Liam for Douglas Booth?
But we wouldn’t be doing our jobs if we didn’t report on every possible explanation, so behold the latest:
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By dubbedmobilemovies.com, on August 28th, 2010
According to police, Paris was the passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over outside the Wynn Hotel in Vegas, where her life-saving BF, Cy Waits, is based.
Officers noticed the car leaving a “smoke trail” and made the stop.
Paris places a call. Hopefully to a lawyer. [Photo: PacificCoastNewsOnline.com]
The driver was popped for DUI (drugs, not alcohol) and reports say that when cops searched Paris, they found her in possession of a controlled substance.
Police say tests revealed the substance to be cocaine, and that the ho-tel heiress, whose World Cup arrest for pot made headlines recently, was arrested.
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By Illanee Banks (Kapot Artois), on August 28th, 2010
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Brick and Lace during the December launch
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