Most people have seen the Tusker Twende Kazi advertisement in Kenya on TV and wondered what it is all about. Twende Kazi in Kenya is a novel reality show in the Kenyan market. Twende Kazi was launched in 2013 by East Africa Breweries Limited Company in Kenya (EABL) and is a model of the popular American show Amazing Race. The Tusker Twende Kazi show in Kenya will have 50 citizens of East Africa competing from Kenya to London in 50 days to take a bottle of Tusker Lager to Kenyan Rugby player Humphrey Khayange who is based there in London. The expedition of the Tusker Twende Kazi show in Kenya will then be recorded and broadcasted all through East Africa.

The Tusker Twende Kazi competition in Kenya courtesy of EABL company in Kenya was influenced by the Kenya at 50 celebrations in Kenya. EABL’s Corporate Affairs Director, Eric Kiniti has said the Tusker Twende Kazi show is intended to exhibit the resilience of the Kenyan spirit to accomplish whatsoever it sets out to do, and thus shall reflect Kenya’s coming of age as it turns 50.

The 50 contestants of Tusker Twende Kazi show in Kenya will be teamed up into groups of 2 and will contain of an average East African citizen and a celebrity. Fourteen Kenyan music and sports celebrities will team up with 14 Kenyans from different walks of life with remaining of the 50 being selected from Uganda and Tanzania. Enrollment for the Tusker Twende Kazi reality TV show in Kenya started on 12th December 2013 and will end in February 2014. The journey to London from Kenya will formally start in February 2014 and will take place over a 50 day period that will see the participants of Tusker Twende Kazi reality show in Kenya traverse a total of 13 countries and traverse two continents in the world.

How to Register for Tusker Twende Kazi reality show in Kenya

Before you register for Tusker Twende Kazi show in Kenya, one must first ensure they are eligible to compete. Firstly, in order to participate in EABL competition in Kenya, one must be 18 years of age or more on the date of the entry into the Tusker Twende Kazi competition in Kenya. You will also be required to provide a valid passport to participate in EABL Tusker Twende Kazi show in Kenya. The passport needed to register in the Tusker reality show in Kenya should be valid until October 2014 and should have 8 blank pages in it. To be a part of the Tusker Twende Kazi competition in East Africa, lastly you must not have a criminal record and be proficient in English.

If you are eligible for the Tusker Twende Kazi competition in Kenya, go to http://tusker.mobi/ using either your computer or internet enabled phone. If you have a Tusker Mobi account online, Log in. If you do not have a Tusker Mobi Account, you can sign up for an account. After logging in the Tusker Mobi account, on the page that comes after, click on GO TO TWENDE KAZI, next Click on ENTER THE MISSION. Thereafter fill the form with your details that are needed then click on SUBMIT.

Thereafter wait to be contacted on whether you have made it to the auditioning phase of the Tusker Twende Kazi show in East Africa. Who knows you may be the next big thing on TV so go ahead and REGISTER for the Tusker Twende Kazi mission sponsored by East Africa Breweries Limited Company along Thika Road in Nairobi!

All around the city of Nairobi, you may have seen billboards or even heard on the radio about the new Home Talk Service from Orange Kenya. If you are like me and have been wondering what this Home Talk is all about, well make yourself comfy and carry on reading to see what I found out about it. The orange home talk service in Kenya is s a wireless landline prepaid service based on GSM technology unlike the conventional land lines in Kenya. However, unlike the ones on mobile phones, it is geographically restricted. And therefore, you can get your town prefix 020 for Nairobi and 041 for Mombasa etc. This is to allow the user to enjoy high voice quality and using a phone number similar to traditional landline numbers under the new service in Kenya. When you want to move, simply visit any orange shop in Kenya and give your new location. The shop agents will provide a number for your new location at a fee of only KSH 100.

One may ask what the point of the new Orange Kenya service is if it is just like the traditional landline service. Well, orange home talk service in Kenya boasts of a number of benefits that will have you reconsidering the usual landline. Among others the benefits include;

• No more copper cables to your house this means no more cable cuts or if having to wait for your phone to get connected by the cable guys and also less wires running around your home or office in Kenya.

• The orange home talk service in Kenya is prepaid therefore this enables you to avoid numerous bills end month and be in control of how much you spend on the phone. To check account balance for your account, dial *222#, select option 3 “manage my account”.

• The orange home talk service in Kenya is a plug and play device. No connections are required. It is a ready to use service.

• One can now enjoy better rates and save: E.g. enjoy Mobile rates on your fixed line by buying the monthly bundle. The pre-paid service is provided through a plug and play desktop phone which costs of KSH 5,200 that comes with a one-time special device for the home talk service. The Orange Kenya service comes with a dedicated menu that can be accessed by just dialling *222# which enables you to manage your account (Top up, subscribe to the bundle, and manage your bundle features).

Customers of Orange Kenya can buy a monthly bundle to enable them enjoy better rates and a defined number of free minutes of on net and off net calls. The tariff description is that by subscribing to the bundle for only KSH 750 per month, one can access on the same network calls for just KSHS 2 per minute and KSHS 3 per minute on off network calls as opposed to the Sh6 for on-net calls and Sh12 for off-net calls on the Telkom fixed landlines. To subscribe to the bundle to subscribe to the bundle simply dial *222#, select option 2 and follow instructions. One can subscribe to the bundle at any time of the month, and the bundle is valid for 30 days.

The orange home talk service in Kenya not only lets you enjoy Orange mobile rates on your landline but also get 10hours of free calls to 3 preferred Orange mobile numbers, 5 hours of free calls to all other Orange numbers in Kenya, for instance, Fixed numbers and Telkom wireless numbers, SMSes across all networks in Kenya at Ksh.1 per SMS and 1 free change of Orange preferred numbers per month Ksh.100 for every other change if it goes beyond one change in a month. Preferred numbers are the numbers that you choose so that after subscribing to the bundle you get 10 hours to talk to them for free. For those customers wondering if they can I retain their old prefix and/or old number, No need to stress yourself wondering, as former customers can have their numbers on Home Talk.

Existing customers of Orange in Kenya can migrate with their current landline number on home talk within the same geographical zone. Also for those who prefer the post pay service on Orange, Orange Kenya has plans to introduce the option by the end of this year. At the moment, Home Talk is available in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu and Eldoret. The service will be targeting households and small and medium enterprises which are some of the biggest consumers of the landline services in Kenya. The service however is not available to customers who want more than one line or customers who have switchboards and the product is only suitable for homes and small businesses. A customer can however buy more than one desktop and have the numbers within a Closed User Group.