The DJ Afro revolution

I haven’t met DJ Afro in person but through a number of movies he has played the role of a commentator just like the legendry football commentator Mohamed Juma Njuguna. Both commentators watch TV thousands of miles away from the scene of action and commentate. Whereas the former does it for movies the latter dwells on the world of sports.

DJ Afro is famed for his discretion in use of language whether vulgar or otherwise. One word he is credited with in the Kenyan linguistic field is ‘Ekemoda’ which is freely used by the youth in their day to day conversations. You wouldn’t like someone to call you ‘ekemoda’ if the tone by which the DJ pronounces it is anything to go by. This word is common reference at pool centers and video shows which are normally jammed by youth who are mostly school dropouts. I am reminded of Video Jacks who can easily be described as the father of Video Shows in Keroka town. He was a lean man with a gait twisted to the right probably as a result the several coins he stocked in his trouser pockets. Most of these coins were shoved into the right trouser pockets for ease of retrieval. You see, Jack as he was called, had a physical deformity in the left hand which made it less functional but not entirely functionless. The left hand stood out because it was short, almost half the size of a normal hand, with four projections that appeared like fingers struggling to grow in vain. On the right hand he normally wore a rather large Seiko 5 wrist watch. Everything Kojack, as he was nicknamed, wore had a purpose.