::Kenya Christian::

As a part of their Staying Alive initiative, MTV now bring the drama series Shuga which is under MTV Ignite. MTV Ignite is a campaign in Kenya , Ukraine & Trinidad & Tobago which aims at creating awareness amongst youth on HIV/AIDS and changing their sexual behavior. The Shuga series is one of the TV programmes to launch the campaign and is aimed at the Kenyan youth market. Set in modern-day Nairobi , Shuga follows the lives of a group of young Kenyans Skola ( David Omwange ), Ty ( Pepe Haze ), Ayira ( Luipta Nyong’o ), Sindi ( Valerie Kimani ), Violet ( Sharon Olago ), Virginia ( Eva Kanyang’onda ), Leo ( Nicholas Mutuma ) & Kennedy ( Anthony Mwangi .) As it is a show specifically aimed at HIV/AIDs awareness, it mainly focuses on these young Kenyans’ sexual lives as they interact with each other. Ayira is a beautiful and ambitious lady who wants to make it in the world give take her struggling mum and sister a good life. To achieve this she ends up getting intimat...

Although I hardly watch TV for any significant amount of time these days(I'm discovering Citizen TV's local shows more of late though) I haven't completely given up on the "idiot box." I mostly flip through channels to see if there's anything remotely interesting. If it isn't Tahidi High (btw,OJ was LOL this week "wacha mpango wa kando") or maybe some interesting personality on Jeff Koinange's "Capital Talk(or The Bench)" its TV off for me. So if I hardly watch any Kenyan TV, you know I am not watching that American stuff. Heroes ..huh? Lost ..what??..ati 24 ?? Maybe I'm missing out, but I am just hardly interested in watching any of it. That's not to say there isn't some really great TV out there, and yes this TV show is American. I don't know if it has ever aired on Kenyan TV, but if you haven't checked it out you're missing on some really first rate television. The show is called The Wire and it f...