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The controversial blogger out to make it big

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She was always going to be a journalist. She was going to be the next Christianne Amanpour or at the very least, Sophie Ikenye. All through campus she had worked supplying photos to KBC. Upon graduation she got a job with a more current media house with a bigger audience. Everyone said she was on the way. That was four years ago. Four years and she has still not gotten anywhere near the camera. She has been filing stories and getting skipped over as some other journalist gets sent to cover it when it develops into a “may-be” story. But she is determined. She is very sure that journalism is the path for her. Then the blogging thing hit Kenya. It presented no challenge to her as after all blogging is simply another outlet for her passion. So she began writing these think pieces and posted them up on the new blog. But in my view, none of them were any different from the view of the pedestrian Kenyan. She got her Facebook friends reading as she ranted about the many ills bedevilling our political class but beyond that the blog got no traction. It was time to regroup. The key problem, she has decided, is that she needs to build a following. This following will allow her a bargaining platform. She has also decided that lifestyle writing is the next frontier. “Most of these famous female bloggers today just wear cute clothes and look pretty!” Anyway she has made peace with it now, she tells me. That is not the direction she wants to drive her writing in. She is the next Jackson Biko. She will not get paid to hold lotions but to sell destinations. She attended one of his master-classes in last year’s Storymoja hay festival. That was the last I heard from her in person. Last week she was trending on twitter and I went onto her blog to have a look. She has deleted the pseudo-intellectual old posts and is now focusing on what she terms “relationship writing”. After a number of missed shots at controversy she has finally struck gold. She has written a fifteen-point note labelling all Kenyan men broke ignoramuses. I know she is waiting for the calls offering columns to start coming in.

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