Ajuma “I a“I am m Nasenyana Ajuma Nasanyana is a fashion model born in neneither tither too oo Turkana District. After being crowned Miss Nairobi in the Miss Tourism Kenya in 2003, she caught the attention of Lyndsey McIntyre of ffooloolish nor ish nor Surazuri Modeling Agency. Her star quality blinded the Gamma Photo Agency, who came to Kenya to do a story on McIntyre’s scouting ttoo coo clleever.”ver.” work and were so taken with Nasenyana that she became the main feature of the story; which later ran in France’s Gala magazine. Nasenyana participated in the New York Fashion Week alongside Naomi Campbell and Alek Wek for Wahome designers such as Baby Phat and Carlos Mienes before travelling to Milan to model for fashion houses such as Ungaro during the Italian Fashion Week. Paris was the final destination during the winter show Mutahi season and British designer Vivienne Westwood made her the lead model in her show. They were both released after fifteen months Wahome Mutahi, popularly known as “Whispers” without ever being brought to trial. His Besides modelling, Nasanyana has decried the apparent trend in her native Kenya toward rejection of after the name on his Daily Nation column, was imprisonment inspired him to write Three Days on the indigenous Black African physical standards of beauty in favour of those of other communities. In an one of Kenya’s most beloved humorists. His the Cross and Jail bugs. He is also the author of interview with the Kenyan broadsheet the Daily Nation, she stated that “it seems that the world is incredible column offered a satirical view of the the immensely popular How to be a Kenyan, based conspiring in preaching that there is something wrong with Kenyan ladies’ kinky hair and dark skin. Their trials and tribulations of Kenyan life and was on his newspaper column. leaflets are all about skin lightening, and they seem to be doing good business in Kenya. It just shocks known and read by almost every Kenyan with me. It’s not OK for a Caucasian to tell us to lighten our skin. I have never attempted to change my skin. access to a newspaper. He was equally well In early 2003 Mutahi underwent what was I am natural. People in Europe and America love my dark skin. But here in Kenya, in my home country, known in theatre where he wrote and acted in supposed to be a routine, minor and painless some consider it not attractive.” As a remedy, Nasanyana has contemplated launching a cosmetic and English- and Kikuyu-language plays that operation at the Thika District Hospital to remove natural skincare line for women like herself. She hopes that her products will inspire her contemporaries caricatured Kenya’s society and politics using his a lipoma from his back. He had been assured by a to love their appearance instead of attempting to alter it through artificial means and we hope she s company Igiza Productions. In 1986 Mutahi was surgeon friend, who had offered to do the ucceeds in her mission. arrested with his brother Njuguna Mutahi and operation, that the procedure would take less than detained in the infamous Nyayo House torture 15 minutes. Instead, he went into a coma from “I exist, and therefore I matter. My chambers in Nairobi and was charged with which he never awoke, passing away 137 days sedition and alleged association with the later. An unfitting end to a true legend, he will be thoughts matter. My feelings matter. My underground “Mwakenya Movement” and later missed. voice matters.” transferred to Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. 50nd3k4 370 50nd3k4 370 50nd3k450nd3k4371371