Amina Abdi Rabar

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Amina Abdi Rabar
Born
Amina Abdi

Nairobi, Kenya
NationalityKenyan
Occupations
  • TV host
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • actress
  • Presenter

Amina Abdi Rabar (born 1989) is a Kenyan TV Presenter and Radio Presenter, based in Nairobi, Kenya. She previously hosted the Breakfast show on 98.4 Capital FM, Nairobi. She is fluent in English and Swahili. She currently hosts The Trend, a weekly TV show in NTV that airs every Friday evening. [1] [2]

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Biography

Amina was born in Nairobi, Kenya. She lived in Kawangware and Eastleigh, two modest estates in Nairobi, for a significant portion of her life. Both of her parents are from the Borana community, however, her mother is from Isiolo and her father is from Moyale.

Education

She attended The Kenya High School, completing her secondary education in 2006.

Career

Amina Abdi enrolled straight into Homeboyz Radio at a radio school that the station had just launched. She worked hard and landed a scholarship of the best student and that is how her career took off.

Around 2012, when she was working at Homeboyz Radio, [3] she would fill in as a senior host when necessary. She was so effective that you would not have known she was a young presenter. She eventually earned her Saturday Night Show.

Soon after, Chris Kirubi spotted her and offered Amina a job, as a replacement of Joey Muthengi at Capital FM. While at Capital Fm Amina hosted the morning Breakfast Show alongside Fareed Khimani and had also for some time been a presenter for The Hits Not Homework show, alongside Soulo at the same station. [4] She later on stopped working as a radio host for Capital Fm in 2020. [5]

Amina Abdi has also worked for renowned media organizations and stations like Ebru and K24. [6] However, she quit hosting K24's Alfajiri Show in 2017, after a two year stint. [7]

From July 2017, Amina Abdi started hosting Maisha Magic East’s Turn Up alongside DJ Joe Mfalme. [8] She later on, in the same year, began [9] hosting NTV's The Trend Show in November as a permanent replacement to Larry Madowo who had left the show earlier on in the same year. [10] [2]

In 2020, Amina Abdi co-hosted the seventh edition [11] [12] of the Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Award ceremony alongside IK Osakioduwa in Lagos, Nigeria. [13] [14] [15]

Amina Abdi who doubles up as a singer has worked on songs with popular artists Jay A, K-Letta, Lon Jon, and Octopizzo. [16] [17] However she left the music scene sooner due to claims of bribery in the industry and the lack of adequate capital to grow and scale her music career. [16]

Amina Abdi has also been involved in humanitarian work, as a UNHCR High-level influencer for the agency's LuQuLuQu campaign. [18]

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  16. 1 2 "One on one with Amina Abdi – Bribery made me quit music". Switch TV Kenya. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
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