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A grenade attack on a nightclub in the centre of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, has injured 13 people.

The grenade was thrown into the Mwauras club early on Monday morning.
Police have not said who was behind the attack, but correspondents say some will blame Somali militants al-Shabab.
It comes a week after Kenya sent troops to Somalia to track down members of the group, which Nairobi blames for several kidnappings. Al-Shabab threatened reprisals if the troops did not leave.
The al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group, which controls much of southern and central Somalia, has denied carrying out any abductions.
'Imminent threat' "Initial investigations show it is a grenade that was thrown inside," said Eric Mugambi, a senior police officer in Nairobi.
A local news station, Capital News Radio, quoted a witness as saying a man had asked to be let in to the Mwauras bar in central Nairobi shortly after 03:00 (0000 GMT). He then hurled a grenade and fled the scene, said the witness.
Lawrence Kioko, who was injured in the attack, told Reuters news agency: "I heard an explosion - there was darkness and I thought the electricity had gone out but when I touched my face, there was blood."

Witnesses said a man threw a grenade into the club and fled the scene.

Video footage showed blood and beer bottles on the floor of the nightclub - upturned seats and debris littered the floor.
"The guys came out running covered in blood. We helped them wash the blood off and they were carried away in ambulances," Jacob Musembi, an eyewitness, told Reuters.
Police cordoned off the area. No group has so far admitted carrying out the attack.
Deputy police spokesman Charles Owino said no-one could be ruled out.
"We know that there are al-Shabab sympathisers in Nairobi," he said. "But it could also have been a business dispute. It is too early to say."
Last week, Kenya announced it would carry out a major security operation in Nairobi to flush out al-Shabab sympathisers once its Somalia operation had ended.
The US embassy in Nairobi warned on Saturday of an "imminent threat" of attacks in Kenya.

Miss World Kenya For Miss World Pageant

The newly crowned Miss World Kenya, Susan Anyango left for London yesterday where she will represent Kenya in this year’s Miss World Beauty Pageant.
Anyango will be among 122 participants in the annual event - now in its 61st edition - scheduled to take place at the Earls Court Two on November 6, 2011 in London. Alexandria Mills of the United States will crown her successor at the end of the event.
“Winning the Nestea Miss World Kenya title has really opened doors for me. I did not think in a million years I would one day be a Miss World Kenya and a role model to young people. I will do my best to bring the crown back home and I feel like my life is just getting started. I cannot wait to do bigger and greater things that will make a difference in the society,” said Anyango.

HOW TO CELEBRATE MACHUJAA DAY (HEROES DAY)

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New Video: Bonoko

You have heard the song, now watch the video to the most hilarious eye witness account ever.
Bonoko is street slang for "Buduki fake" or "fake gun" and this was not originally a song, it was an eye witness' account that aired on a local TV station and was quickly turned into a song by some creative producer who played around with a beat and created a monster hit.
Now there's a video, a short sketch of what exactly happened to the butcher "ule anauzanga nyama pare Ngara."

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies Of All Time

The download numbers are in and the most pirated films of all time have been revealed and they will probably not surprise you.
Torrentfreak released the download numbers to the most pirated films of all time and according to them, the number one illegally downloaded movie on BitTorrent is Avatar, which also doubles up as the highest grossing film of all time.
Avatar leads with 21 million downloads followed by The Dark Knight and Transformers in third.
Ironically, these films went on to do very well at the box office.
The only movie in this list that didn't do well on the box office was Kick-Ass, closing just shy of the 100 million dollar mark.


1       Avatar (2009)   21 million

2       The Dark Knight (2008)  19 million

3       Transformers (2007)     19 million

4       Inception (2010)        18 million

5       The Hangover (2009)     17 million

6       Star Trek (2008)        16 million

7       Kick-Ass (2010)         15 million

8       The Departed (2006)     14 million

9       The Incredible Hulk (2008)      14 million

10      Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)         14 million

LL Cool J: Run Like Skinny Kenyans

Rap legend LL Cool J seems to have rubbed Kenyans the wrong way when he called us "skinny" during his acceptance speech at the BET Hip Hop Awards 2011.
It was a powerful speech by LL as he accepted the “I Am Hip Hop Icon Award” and he dropped a freestyle that was really powerful until he said, "you better turn to these polls like skinny Kenyans/26 miles in 2 hours 3 minutes."
We know he was paying tribute to our athletes and was talking to his fellow Americans but the word skinny may have got some thinking he was talking out of contempt since we are in Africa and he is living large in the US.

Here's the speech, it's really powerful.

My acceptance speech, what I won’t do is try preach
What I won’t do is assume I’m smarter than you and try to teach
What I will do is set an example, inspire you to reach for the stars beyond mars that space bars can’t delete
Because without a dream fulfilled your life’s incomplete
A hearse, a limousine without a backseat,
The worst, think Usain Bolt without feet
Real life aint Hollywood, it’s Halloween
Every day is trick or treat
It aint a red carpet it’s a sidewalk bloody from the wolves eating red meat
And these spotlights don’t come with money they come with police
Millionaires cry about raising taxes on the elite
They won’t feed us, as they’d rather defeat us, like an aborted fetus
But your greatest feat is to get back up on your feet
Did I mention, life ain't a sprint it’s a marathon
Really stressful on your tendons and with the shape the economy is in today, you better run to the polls like skinny Kenyans
26 miles in two hours and three minutes
It wasn’t weeks or months, it took us over 400 years to raise the debt limit
So don’t lose faith, there’s a sweet life out there and one day you will taste
But just like any marathon, you must monitor your pace
And watch out for the haters pushing drinks up in your face
Maintain your focus through the ups and downs the arguments and debates
And when you win your award, make sure you put in a safe place
And be prepared for whatever…just in case.

David Otunga: Our Man At WWE

He has been described as the "Kanye West of WWE". He is David Otunga (how's that for a real Kenyan name?) and World Wrestling Entertainment fanatics recognise him, but for the rest of you, he is Jennifer Hudson's husband.
The son of a Kenyan father and an American mother, he rose to fame after he starred in reality show “I Love New York” but although he never won Tiffany "New York" Pollard's heart after being eliminated on the eight round, his star continued to shine.
Otunga signed a developmental contract with WWE in 2008 and was assigned to its development territory, Florida Championship Wrestling. He made his debut in May 2009 under the ring name, Dawson Alexander, Esq., in a six-man tag team match. He now fights with the group Nexus.
The man who holds a Bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Illinois has teamed up with John Cena and has won a couple of matches and is now one of the show's biggest stars.
He met and fell in love with singer and actress Jennifer Hudson and they have a son, David Daniel Otunga Jr.
We await the day he will make a high-profile visit to Kenya with his superstar wife and child.
We will be running a series on some of our celebrity countrymen in the diaspora.

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Ugandan Soap Collector On CNN Heroes' List

Uganda's Derreck Kayongo is among 10 people from across the world nominated as this year's CNN Heroes.
The Atlanta-based Kayongo and his Global Soap Project have been recognised for their effort to collect used hotel soap from across the United States then cleaning and reprocessing for shipment to impoverished nations such as Haiti, Uganda, Kenya and Swaziland.
According to CNN, Kayongo, 41, thought of the idea in the early 1990s, when he first arrived to the U.S. and stayed at a hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He noticed that his bathroom was replenished with new soap bars every day, even though they were only slightly used.
"I was shocked just to know how much (soap) at the end of the day was thrown away," Kayongo said.
Each year, hundreds of millions of soap bars are discarded in North America alone.
"Are we really throwing away that much soap at the expense of other people who don't have anything? It just doesn't sound right."
"I tried to return the new soap to the concierge since I thought they were charging me for it," Kayongo said. "When I was told it was just hotel policy to provide new soap every day, I couldn't believe it."
Kayongo called his father -- a former soap maker in Uganda -- and shared the experience.
"My dad said people in America can afford to throw it away. But I just started to think, 'What if we took some of this soap and recycled it, made brand new soap from it and then sent it home to people who couldn't afford soap?' "
Kayongo fled Uganda to Kenya with his parents 30 years ago because of the mass torture and killings by former Ugandan military dictator Idi Amin.
"It's a long-term grieving process that sort of never ends," he said. "As a child coming from school, passing dead bodies for 10 solid years -- 'It's not cool,' as my son would put it. It's not good. A lot of my friends were orphaned, and I was lucky."
"We lost everything," Kayongo said. "We didn't live in the camps, but we sacrificed a lot. The people worse off lived in the camps. Soap was so hard to come by, even completely nonexistent sometimes. People were getting so sick simply because they couldn't wash their hands."

Maina Kageni: I Miss My Tag Heuer

If you were at the Carnivore on Saturday night for the Tusker All Stars concert with Cabo Snoop, Eve and Shaggy, then you know that Maina Kageni, who was the MC, decided to hype up the crowd and gave out his jacket belt and watch.
Maina says he has no idea what got him to be so "sufficiently philanthropic" at the concert.
"All I know is that when I woke up in the morning, I was slapping myself wondering how I got to that level. I tell you, a couple more shots and I would have given more," he says.
The watch, a brand new very pricey Tag Heuer (not the one pictured, :)) bought three months cost the top radio presenter quite some money and he doesn't want to even think about the price tag.
"It was pretty expensive and the person who has it is one lucky person I will tell you that. I miss that watch but let him enjoy it," he added.

Gramps Morgan's Camera Stolen On Kenyan Tour

Looks like Reggae artistes have no much luck in Kenya. First was Sean Paul who lost his mobile phone some years back and now Gramps Morgan lost his camera as he left Kenya after a week long charity trip.
Both these artistes lost their belongings at the airport just as they were about to depart.
Gramps took to Twitter to express his disappointment yesterday eliciting some major reaction from Kenyans on Twitter who kept reminding him about the same fate that befell Sean Paul.
"I can't believe they stole my camera out my bag at the Kenya airport on British airways I'm so hurt rasta Kenya why you do this to me??!!!"
We are told the equipment was a Sony still camera and was pretty expensive and he had checked in the bag at the airport when the theft happened.
It is ironic that he would get robbed while on a charity mission to Kenya and we hope he can forgive "us" and come back next time.

Nick Ndeda Quits Hot96 For Kiss100

Nick Ndeda has taken his talents to Kiss100. The presenter who hosts the 7-10PM show "The drop zone" is said to have handed in his resignation letter last month.
He is going to Kiss100 as a presenter and deputy programmes controller and is set to start his new gig in a week's time once he wraps up shooting MTV's Shuga 2 over the weekend. He is also an actor on Higher Learning.
This is the second high profile resignation at Hot96 after Mimmo Wanjuhi also walked saying she wants to concentrate on her music but it seems there's more because she is ready to get on radio if an offer comes her way.
Many at Hot96 say the station has always been treated as a step-child of the Royal Media Services and nothing much happens to help it grow its market share.

New Music: Tribute To Wangari Maathai By Kwame Rigii

We knew someone would be touched enough to come up with a song to eulogize the late Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai.
Kwame Rigii did a good job with this one and we commend him for it.
Maathai's body will be cremated at the Kariokor crematorium tomorrow and her final send off will begin with a private service at the Lee Funeral Home.
Inter-faith prayers will be held at Freedom Corner, Uhuru Park beginning 8 am. There will be no 21-gun salute as is customary with.
President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga are expected to attend.
Prof Maathai had expressed her wish to be cremated and “her remains interred within the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies” at the University of Nairobi’s Kabete campus.

New Music Video: Silali - Ally B Feat Size 8

Size 8 is no longer on fire, she is now causing Ally B sleepless nights in this new and danceable tune, "Silali".

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