Eli Mwenda Girlfriend & More

Eli Mwenda Girlfriend/Who Is Eli Mwenda Dating?

Eli Mwenda is currently dating US Love Island’s Trina Njoroge.

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Eli Mwenda Age/How Old Is Eli Mwenda?

Eli Mwenda, in 2024, is 31 years old.

Georgie Ndirangu Girlfriend/Georgie Ndirangu Wife

Several years ago, George Ndirangu was dating Shakila Manuela Müller. I am not sure whether or not they are still together today, but here is a video of them holidaying during his birthday weekend in 2017.

Georgie Ndirangu Age/George Ndirangu Age

George Ndirangu was 28 in 2017, which makes him 35 in 2024.

Mwendas Cocktails

Mwendas is a nifty little cocktail bar on Utalii Street, in downtown Nairobi, not far from Alliance Française.

I first went to Mwendas about 16 years ago, and I can tell you that their cocktails are really worth the hype!

Eli Mwenda Sister

Eli Mwenda has a sister called Rebekah Nkirote. You can find her Instagram account at @IAmNkirote.

Eli Mwenda Parents

I am not sure who Eli Mwenda’s parents are but, in one of his videos, he mentioned that he moved with them to the UK when he was a baby so that his father could attend graduate school there.

In that same video, he mentions that his parents were practicing Christians and that they were quite strict while he was growing up.

Eli Mwenda Height

I am not sure how tall Eli Mwenda is but as soon as I find out, I will share that with you here.

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Eli Mwenda Biography

If you are interested in finding out more about Eli Mwenda and what motivates him to do the things he does, check out this interview of his here.

Georgie Ndirangu Biography

If you would like to know more about George Ndirangu’s life, here is an interview with him that was originally published on a Rwandan website called My Story.

Since that website no longer exists, I am reproducing the interview here:

My way to CNBC Africa – Georgie Ndirangu

September 1, 2017

I am Georgie Ndirangu, 28 years old, and I am presenter and producer at CNBC Africa.

How did you find yourself as a presenter at CNBC and in Rwanda?

I studied actuarial science at university and then I was working in the accounts department at the ministry of housing in Kenya.

At that time, I was also involved with a friend of mine who had a business in Kenya.

He left Kenya and started a new business in Rwanda and left me a message saying that there is an opportunity to handle logistics for a start-up company in Rwanda.

It was a logistics company under Tele10 and I went to work there.

Obviously, with most start-ups you never which direction they will take and it did not go the way it was planned.

However, I became friends with the managing director and he incorporated us into Radio 10.

Back then, I had no proper journalism skills – I had not learned anything on air or anything about intonation and voice. So, he got me linked with some of the other presenters and I used to follow one French journalist.

Every time she went into the studio I wanted to know how she handled her intonation and her voice because French is very different from English.

She then taught me how to handle the microphone, how to present stories and helped me to learn the ropes of journalism in Rwanda.

With time, I got the formal training and it became 5 minutes into the news, then 15 minutes, then 5 minutes business news within that 15 minutes.

Remember, at that time, 5 years ago, Rwanda did not have any proper English news. They started incorporating it into a more formal system and then Radio 10 was the first private radio station.

After about a year, the investor said he wanted to start a television channel – TV10 came about and was the first private TV station.

They managed to get the people from the radio station as presenters because it was obviously more affordable and easier to get us. That’s how it started: I got the job, I started doing the panels and started interviewing different people.

I even got to meet the minister of ICT and some other producers who I worked with outside of TV10 on a personal level. Then CNBC came knocking about a year later – and now I am here.

How do you combine poetry and being a news presenter?

Everybody has an outlet – my outlet, is that I love listening to music and I love poetry. I believe that I have no talent. My talent is either bringing people together or to make them feel like that is the best moment they have ever had when we are together.

When I first came to Rwanda, Spoken Word gave me a platform and I presented a poem there. It’s just everyone coming in to relax and keep their mind relaxed for an hour and a half.

The response for my poem was really good and it was nice presenting something on stage.

That’s how I started there.

Was it your dream to become a presenter when you were young?

I grew up watching CNBC, CNN, or Al Jazeera as my mom and dad had an accountant background – they were really well with numbers and they always wanted to be up to date with what was happening. But never in a million years I would have thought that I would be the one on TV presenting the news!

Growing up, my mom wanted me to be a doctor and my dad was a bit more open, he just wanted to me to pursue whatever I wanted to do.

When I was going into university I started studying actuarial science because first of all, I loved maths, and second of all, it was something other people said was “too hard”.

It combines two things: Firstly, it is too hard so that other people do not want to do it and it is a challenge, and secondly, it takes less years than medicine. I can say for a fact, I stumbled into becoming a presenter and learned on the job!

What challenges did you face when coming to Rwanda and becoming a news presenter?

For the first couple of years, language was a big issue. When I could afford someone to help me with cooking and cleaning, the guy spoke only Kinyarwanda.

If I told him something, he would not understand me. So the language was a struggle but now I am more proficient in Kinyarwanda and can hold my own conversation.

Another challenge was that when you come to a place where people have been doing something for a long time and you want to be an authority and have a voice, you are going to face some frictions.

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