Why I left London for Nairobi - Legendary grime MC, Mikel Ameen

Mikel Ameen [Photo: Courtesy]

If you’re in Kenya, you may be familiar with Mikel if you frequently visited Muze Club in Westlands pre-pandemic. His intimately themed Cheza Roho Shows were a different animal. Perhaps you bumped into him during his pumped sets at gigs such as Kenya Nights Presents Young Paris at Alchemist, where he was a curtain-raising act for the international artiste. Or maybe you just heard of him for the first time today.

The name Ameen holds some weight in international showbiz. His brother Aml Ameen is a famous British actor known for his roles as Trevor in Kidulthood, Lewis Hardy in the ITV television series The Bill, Malcolm in the NBC television series Harry's Law, Capheus in the first season of the Netflix original series Sense8, and Alby in The Maze Runner. For Mikel however, music is his calling, and his family’s role in the arts is just fuel for him to keep pursuing his dreams in the journey of life.