Blackstar Media, Kenya, Argwings Kodhek Road, Nairobi (2025)

18/04/2025

Our founder Kingwa Kamencu is on the front page of the newspaper today 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽

We love and respect socialites, but as a creative community we are careful with the titles we take up and apply to ourselves. Thank you for the coverage nevertheless Standard Digital.

Book copies still selling guys. The deets:

My Soul Begins to Flower - Poetry by Kingwa Kamencu
Ksh 1,500 per copy (Free delivery within CBD, Ksh 300 – 500 within Nairobi environs)
Till number 8280420 (Culture & Comms in Devt)

Also available at Nuria-Your Store

06/06/2024

High taxes giving you headaches? The state of the economy making you suicidal? The murderous impulses your landlord is evoking (rent arrear tings) making Kamiti look more of a reality by the day?

Fundraising Friday's got ya.... More than 100 happy campers have made their breakthrough and crossed over to the light. First, the individual, next, the global economy.

Register and come through for your funding fix: https://forms.gle/ntvap4WVJwEjn8EaA

29/05/2024

We're back like we never left. This Fundraising Friday will have a strong focus on the creative space, featuring Wendy Karani - visionary founder and CEO of Afreative (their website is BOMB!!! 💣💣💥💥 https://afreative.com/)

Wendy's dream is to see African creatives have big, bright, successful careers. Passionate about putting people in touch with opportunities, her vision spans the gamut of the ecosystem, from sourcing talent, networking, upskilling, project management to investing. Anyone that has met has is in awe of her searing clarity of vision and drive. Turn up and lets get things happening.

Register on: https://forms.gle/ntvap4WVJwEjn8EaA

23/05/2024

We are taking part in Africa Liberation Week events this week which means Fundraising Friday is not happening tomorrow. We are grateful for the participation, enthusiasm, and support towards it 🙏🏽

We however are on for a X Space conversation with Ubuntu Solar CEO Andrew Amadi on Saturday, on tracing the connections between the Berlin Conference of 1884, and the mindset, governance and economy of Africa in the 21st Century. How to delink from this matrix, to take the continent forward.

Numerously awarded and recognized as a global leader in the field of renewable energy and impact investing (he is the immediate former CEO of Kenya Renewable Energy Association - KEREA), Andrew will also divulge information on decentralized systems his team has been disrupting the renewable energy front in, and the potential this holds for other industries and sectors. Be on the cutting edge, don't be left behind, turn up.

X Space link: https://x.com/i/spaces/1BdGYrnDABoJX

16/05/2024

Welcome to Fundraising Fridays. We envision it as a hangout space where you can slowly work on building your registered but inert organization, work on projects you have procrastinated on for a long time, meet with people to collaborate on initiatives with, brainstorm on and receive feedback on grant applications, explore additional ways of raising capital, get tutoring on how to respond to an upcoming job interview, and receive coaching on your business if needed.

As the host (hostess with the mostest) my personal interests revolve around women in politics, social justice, media and communications, social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and the arts (writing, poetry, film), and so the opportunities we shall be sharing in the first session tomorrow will heavily revolve around these. Come by with your own opportunity links, knowledge, expertise and tips, and we shall see what we will have managed to cook by the end of it all. As always, feel free to share this with someone who you think may benefit, or to sponsor an errant family member that you think may have lost direction.

*Very key – Please fill in the registration form after paying so that we can forward the meeting room link to you. Safaricom’s Till No back end does not give customer contact details.

Register on: https://forms.gle/LEhzbtLhjZ19RT7G9

14/03/2024

It’s been 10 weeks of the masterclass series, and it has been an honor to share with you cutting edge thinkers, thoughts and ideas, to take discourse and living practice to new levels. This Saturday we are joined by non-other than the beguiling and bodacious Dr. Harriet Scott PhD. A lady, a queen, a goddess. Her PhD in Religious Studies saw her explore esoteric knowledge on African spirituality and feminine archetypes; vital wisdom that women as a collective have suffered from lacking access to.

Harriet Scott KE will take us through practices to help us to reconnect and find freedom in our sexuality and desires, rather than living as victim of them. In finding your sexual freedom, you can heal yourself, your family, your community, as well as manifest on the physical plane. Have you been having recurrent problems in your relationships? Have you been stuck in constant victimhood, self-doubt and frustration? Come and learn how to liberate your sexual energy to stand in your full power. Tell a friend to tell a friend to tell a friend.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/noJwACXHgJH4ugbWA

08/03/2024

Did you have a good week? 🙂 Did you get your ticket? 🙂 Spaces are still open for online attendance, one space to go for the in-person segment. If you have a friend that you think would benefit from tomorrow's session, do not hold yourself back from benevolently buying them a ticket. Register before 9am and get the meeting link on time. Have a good one.

More on David's work: https://www.davidsamuelcloud.com/

(Session both online and in-person - with limited spaces. Deets on poster)

Registration link: https://forms.gle/xeDHpr5RiRBUQQ3R9

05/03/2024

Canadian entrepreneur and mystic David Samuel is in town and it would have been criminal to not have him on the masterclass. A self-made millionaire by 25, he fulfilled his childhood dream of retiring at 28, was a monk for 7 years, travelled to more than 100 countries, and set up 20 companies in 15 countries. Cognizant of the Robin Sharma vibes he gives off, he humorously says that he is not the monk that sold his Ferrari but the monk that gave away his airplane, having gifted his RV4 to a friend who knew how to fly but did not have one.

Now in his late fifties, David who has owned businesses in the niches of retail, manufacturing, nuclear waste remediation, and alternate cancer cures, currently teaches techniques on emotional freedom. In line with our March Women’s month theme ‘Allowing Orgasm’, we are honored to have him speak on how to release emotional blocks to live a high quality life. Between now and Saturday we are also camping at his gate to get airplanes of our own. Spread the word, join in.

More on David's work: https://www.davidsamuelcloud.com/

(Session both online and in-person - with limited spaces. Deets on poster)

Registration link: https://forms.gle/xeDHpr5RiRBUQQ3R9

01/03/2024

Erotic energy is fierce, ferocious, feral. Unapologetic, unabashed, uninhibited - shameless. Unhealthy societies live in terror of the erotic instinct in women, dampening down and suppressing it in the socialization process. While this may have initially been well meaning (to maintain social order), it leads to the normalization of powerlessness in women, alongside an inability to set up boundaries and have standards. A woman out of touch with her sexual instincts and desires, is also a woman out of touch with her self-protective (will-to-power) instinct. You cannot disable one without affecting the other.

Tomorrow (Saturday 2nd March) Poet and S*x Guide Eudiah Kamonjo leads us through getting back in touch with, and reactivating our erotic feminine energy. Erotic energy, aka libido, moves the world. Depression and powerlessness is what results when libido is blocked, rendering us listless, apathetic, frozen, in victimhood, in limbo, in survival mode.

How about living life fully aroused, fully wet, fully hard, fully turned on, where your desires are so compelling and magnetizing that wild horses cannot keep you away from them? How about living a life filled with depth, feeling, solidness, groundedness and power, because you have finally found Home in yourself and are no longer looking for it in unworthy others? How about living your life proactively, in marked pursuit of your dreams rather than living in shame, guilt and reactivity, based on bad choices of the past? It’s time to meet your inner ferocious, and claim the gifts she has been holding for you all this time.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/ypyHXJ77zvrK6UFs5

23/02/2024

Happening tomorrow, share the word, turn up 🙂

Registration link: https://forms.gle/iVP7PARfiND5EnCL8

21/02/2024

By the time one gets to 40, life has beaten them up, thrashed them around, slapped them silly, taken them through the spin drier. The unfortunate and residual effect of this is the acquiring of an inner loathing of the self and life, for having gone through the experience. Rather than have compassion on ourselves, we fall into patterns of self hate and self harm, misguidedly believing that if we make our lives hell, the world will not come after us to 'punish' us again.

The fascinating thing is that there was no punishment in the first place. It was simply the breaking up of our outer shell, to allow our true essence to flow. Without this realization, one remains stuck in pain, suffering, bitterness, self pity and self loathing. It may not be apparent to the individual but just as much as a wound on the arm untreated eventually gathers pus and starts to stink, unhealed soul wounds come with their own noxious stench that make us repulsive to others.

This weekend as part of the February relationship series, we provide space, process and ritual for forgiveness. Forgiveness for ourselves, forgiveness for life, forgiveness for others, even, forgiveness for God. We call on those carrying baggage, trauma wounds and hatred against themselves, the world, or others, to join us in finally laying those demons to rest.

The amazing Elly Ubuntu Farmer facilitates this particular session, and we are thrilled to the bone. He has walked his own journey of forgiveness and has a testimony to share. Join us this Saturday, and play your part in the collective elevation. Share this invitation with a friend or two that may benefit. See you Saturday, bright and early.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/iVP7PARfiND5EnCL8

14/02/2024

Where performance and appearance are the be-all end-all, truth and authenticity suffer. Spectacle, nice as it may be to look at, comes with the unintended consequence of sucking all oxygen out of the room, leaving everyone lethargic, listless, apathetic, cynical, frustrated, angry. The crisis of meaning of this age is not necessarily a bad thing. It forces us to go back to the basics. To ask us who we are, want we want, what really matters to, outside of what culture, peer groups, advertising and mass media tell us.

This Saturday the 17th of February, we explore what ‘beingness’ looks and feels like in relationships, a fresh and much needed replacement from the current polluted model. This topic will be of interest to single and married people of all ages, particularly those discontent with existing models and in search of new ways to relate. Join us in this exploration of a brave new world.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/rwzArQMydV7ZukuT6

09/02/2024

Across class, age, race and county, relationships are in crisis. Infidelity is seen as comical, faithfulness a word only found in the dictionary, family is no longer sacred. As part of the Valentine's masterclass special, tomorrow we explore the role of inner psychological forces, the animus (in women) and the anima (in men), and how they cause us to show up in relationships. We explore how the contemporary relationship framework, premised on antiquated cultural beliefs, juvenile concepts of romance, mercantile self aggrandizement, and as spaces to satisfy biological urges, have failure inbuilt into them. This session will be helpful for those who, unconvinced by the current frameworks of dehumanization and martyrdom of the varied genders proffered, are seeking to understand relationships (their own, or others) in a new light.

It will be useful for those with a high level of self-awareness, that are ready to move beyond victimhood, blaming, guilt and shame, and are ready to look at themselves, their needs, their actions, their habits, anew. Whether single or in a relationship, turn up and learn how to recognize your patterns of relating (they show up in your friendships, and at your work place too!), and how you can restructure yourself to show up more courageously and authentically.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/oE5y2gMjbV1tsbreA

02/02/2024

We are here transforming your life, all day, err day. Sign up for tomorrow's session and begin to live from a whole new frequency.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/xis1sbCrvhRYidr17

29/01/2024

Unworthiness is a thief, a killer, a saboteur. A virus inadvertently programmed into all of us from our families of origin and culture, it limits our lives and stifles our dreams. Operating through our varied identities (gender, age, culture, ethnicity, race, economic class), it hijacks our reality, convincing us to remain content with our smallness. In the relationship realm, it creates habitual blaming, victim mindsets, abusive engagements, cynicism (mtaachana tu), avoidant behaviors (kutoroka nyumbani), and ludicrous gender wars.

This Saturday as part of our Valentine's series, we unmask how unworthiness runs our lives, ruining our relationships with ourselves and others. Facilitated by transformational coach Carolyne Gaithuma, it is an opportunity to self-reflect on one’s life honestly, to begin to root out it’s seeds. While relationships are supposed to be spaces for love, healing and revitalization, today they have become spaces for bludgeoning, scalding and eviscerating. Turn up this Saturday, and dare to open your heart up to a new way of being.

Entry: Ksh 500

Registration link in the comments

25/01/2024

Feeling lethargic, apathetic, and listless despite it being the beginning of the year?

Join the Blackstar Masterclass series this Saturday, and get a chance to reconnect with your mission.

Award winning journalist and transformational coach, Mildred Ngesa, will lead you through a soul reflection session, to help you step back onto your mission and path. A champion for transformational change through messages grounded on hope, Mildred is an enormously gifted catalyst. At only Ksh 500, it’s an investment of exponential proportions. Register, spread the word, and turn up ready to get activated.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/4VdBHG5nhpMisD5SA

19/01/2024

It’s 2024, rise and shine 🕺🏽🕺🏽🌞🌞🌟🌟✨✨

Just in case the frustrations and heartbreaks of 2023 are sitting as psychic blockages in your spirit, the Blackstar Master Class Series is here to help. This Saturday’s session looks at 'Goal Setting and strategic planning for 2024'.

Facilitated by creativity coach and business development trainer Mercy Sitima, the session promises insights and breakthroughs beyond words. Mercy has spent more than 10 years in the creative and entrepreneurship space, helping passionate people find clarity on the path to their dreams. She is brilliance on steroids. Come ready to outline the goals, plans, habits and identities that will translate into a powerful outcome this 2024.

Circulate the poster wildly, we must all get to the promised land.

Registration link in comments

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