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A Kenyan man due to be executed in Saudi Arabia has had a last-minute reprieve following a large-scale social media campaign. Presenter of This Is Africa on BBC World Service
Stephen Munyakho, son of veteran journalist Dorothy Kweyu, received the death penalty in 2011 following a fatal fight with a colleague in the Gulf nation. Zanda
According to the Bring Back Stevo campaign, run by Munyakho's supporters, both workers "sustained stab wounds" but only Munyakho survived. Zakuza shot to fame as the voice behind several South African club bangers, including Master KG’s 2018 hit Skeleton Move and Club Contoller by Prince
Consequently Munyakho was handed the death sentence. Kaybee.
Under Saudi law, a death sentence can be lifted if the family agrees to get compensation instead. She found herself grappling with
His family back home in Kenya have been attempting to raise the required blood money, which is three-and-a-half million Saudi riyals ($940,000; £750,000), for the deceased's family. celebrity and international touring and, as she’s been telling me, she felt
On Monday, just two days before Munyakho was due to be executed, Kenya's Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs said Saudi Arabia had "kindly granted" the government's request to postpone the death in order to allow for "further negotiations between all parties". totally ill-equipped to cope with these pressures.
Korir Sing'Oei wrote on social media platform X: "As we devise strategies to bring this matter to a more acceptable conclusion, and thereby giving both families the closure they so urgently need and deserve, we shall continue to lean on the warm and solid friendship that we have with our Saudi partners, as well as on the goodwill of all Kenyans." “I
found myself lonely at times, I missed my family and everything that I knew, so
that took a toll mentally, I was a baby,” Zakuza says.
She
describes reaching out to people back home, but finding they were busy getting
on with their own lives.
Also, since they felt she was very lucky to be
overseas, they didn’t have much sympathy to offer.
Zakuza says she faced mistreatment at venues because she was black and female, and also had
to deal with online criticism, including about how she looked:
“My
hairdresser is all the way back in South Africa - give me a break! I just never
got to be an upcoming artist," she says.
"I never got to make mistakes without the world
looking at me. It was hard to walk away at what seemed like the peak of my
career, but rather I walk away than crash.”
She
decided to take a break from music, exploring the world of radio and acting, but now
she is back with a fresh EP and renewed confidence.
“I am
30 now. I have created boundaries. I won’t exert myself trying to please
everyone. I know how to handle nay-sayers... by the way the best way is to
ignore them,” Zakuza advises.
Judging
by the exclusive acoustic performances she has recorded for This Is Africa, we
are in for a treat when Zakuza’s EP drops.
To hear Zanda
Zakuza in session with DJ Edu,
listen online here.
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