"How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!" These are the words of King David of Israel in 2nd Samuel 1:25-27. Listening to him, you would imagine that he was commentating the AFC Leopards' match against Wazito FC. They lost that match 2-0. AFC Leopards have set the bar really high of how a team falls from the very top of the game to the rock bottom. The one-time East African giants are now a shadow of their farmer selves, literally. They have lost their identity, style and minds and their dwindling fan base has endured perhaps the most harrowing times of their lives. If you've got a heart, you must feel for them. Less than seven years ago they were the most successful club in Kenya having won the league a (then) record 13 times. They used to beat Gor Mahia and other clubs around them like Brock Lesner beats Roman Reigns. But fast forward seven years later: Gor Mahia has beaten them seven times in a row, collected the KPL title five times in the last ...

Allow  me to shock you. "Lingala" is not a genre of music like many people tend to think. The genre of music most Kenyans mistakenly call ‘Lingala’ is actually known as ‘soukous’. Lingala is a Bantu language spoken in four countries on the African continent. Lingala usage in popular culture in Kenya is rising on an epic scale, propelled, no doubt, by the influence of Congolese music. Radio shows like rhumba bakulutu, rhumba attention, and the like where listeners are constantly bombarded with Lingala phrases they barely understand are all the rage. Guess where you first heard the phrase “ tozali kokoba nse kokoba lokola koba akobaka” (we go on, and on like a totoise crawls) Was it not in a rumba music show on Qwetu FM? Internationally acclaimed artistes like Fally Ipupa, Ferre Gola, Werrason, JP Mpiana, Le General Defao, Koffi Olomide etc all predominantly sing in Lingala language. And these are artistes with huge following in Nairobi.  It's therefore of little surprise ...