What you need to know about this girl, Yemi Alade

Yemi Alade from Nigeria during a press conferance at the Ole Sereni hotel, Nairobi ahead of Choma Na Ngoma concert by Radio Maisha at at KICC (Thursday 31st May,2018) . [Elvis Ogina.Standard]

Spotting black trousers, a trendy blue denim jacket and her now trademark stunners; Yemi Alade emerges from the International Arrivals exit of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). It is her third time in Kenya in a span of five months. This is a route she knows well.

She looks pensive and laid back, her usual bubbly demeanour and glittering smile amiss, her long artificial dreadlocks, a black Magic Johnson cap and eye-covering glasses are what welcomes us. Understandably, this is a star who has been in flight for hours, and besides the exhaustion from a series of concerts in her world tour, she is clearly jet-lagged. For months now, her life has literally been a journey.