Rumours are Spreading

False 411 alert

It is said that a rumour can go round the whole world while the truth is yet to tie its shoe laces. That is quite apt and true especially in the modern era. We live in the information age where all kind of information is accessible in both easy and swift means. Celebrities of our times must be glad that their antics and contribution to whatever they add to humanity can be relayed way much easier. But still, most must rue the power of false information especially using the powerful medium that is the internet.

Around 2009 when Kenya was suffering from the hangovers of dancing ‘kuku’, ‘helicopter’, ‘slide’, ‘mosquito’ and other forms of dance moves, including my favourite of all time, ‘kangaroo’, a new style of music began to emerge. You see, it was now the decline phase of the type of music the Kenyan urban culture had come to embrace; Kapuka when Sauti Sol burst into the scene. I remember a neighbour of mine back then that would play their solo album to no end and I couldn’t avoid their wonderful style of music as my sister was a big fan. Then was when I first heard a rumour that they were gay. I thought to myself that it was just a nasty rumour that would die soon but alas! It still thrives and has been amplified by the emergence of social media.

Maybe the 'Usher-like' dressing style backfired 

To be honest, I really do not know their sexual orientation and neither does it excite me. But this is a sad tale of the many baseless stories that surface and end on their own. I am grateful not to be a celebrity because some can be really nasty; from claims that one suffers from a chronic illness to death itself. How many times have you read somewhere that Will Smith passed on after a nasty fall from a cliff Australia or Lil Wayne is dead after shooting himself thinking he was lighting a joint of weed?

I do not the genesis of such but I presume it is ‘keyboard warriors’ who have too much to spare, a weird sense of imagination and an audience that is engrossed in knowing all the happenings of the so called ‘celebs’.

Some rumours are just silly. Messi to Chelsea, aha!

So Sauti Sol are gay because of how they dress? That’s plain shallow. Let us be constructive in our judgement of people. There isn’t even a need to judge because as Jesus said, ‘Ye first remove the log of wood in your eye before pointing out the speck in thy neighbour’s eye’...paraphrased of course, lest I be condemned of spreading a rumour from Biblical heresy.

Till next time, I remain Njabia the 3^rd.