{"id":202338,"date":"2016-03-28T14:50:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T14:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=202338"},"modified":"2016-03-28T14:50:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T14:50:11","slug":"kenyas-league-of-extravagant-grannies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=202338","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s league of extravagant grannies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Big up to <em>African Digital Art<\/em> for putting us on to Kenya\u2019s League of Extravagant Grannies. <em>NYANYE<\/em>, the latest\u00a0editorial from Kenyan digital photographer Osborne Macharia, tells a fictional story of badass\u00a0grandmas bringing straight fire to Somalia. In other words, it\u2019s the ultimate in #SquadGoals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Macharia explains:\u201cThis is the story of Kenya\u2019s League of Extravagant Grannies who were once corporate and government leaders in the 1970\u2019s but are now retired. They now live the retired high life travelling to exotic and remote areas within Africa to explore, party and enjoy in exclusivity.<\/p>\n<p>We managed to catch up with 3 of them in Somalia soon after they landed. Little is know about them till now\u2026..\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a making-of video, stylist Kevin Abbra says he was going for \u201cretro-vintage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born and raised in Nairobi, Macharia began his career in architecture before switching to his true passion, photography. He\u2019s worked as a commercial photographer ever since while also carrying out personal projects, like <em>Extravagant Grannies<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Okayafrica<\/em> previously spoke with Macharia about his playful Kenyan schoolyard-inspired photo series, <em>Afro-Juba<\/em>. \u201cI honestly have no words to describe my style,\u201d he admitted. \u201cSome say it\u2019s \u2018a mixture of CGI and photography\u2019 while others say it\u2019s \u2018photography with a painted effect bordering on illustration,\u201d he told us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Keep up with Macharia on Behance\u00a0and head here for a full portfolio of his work.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-79994 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/oka-cdn.okayplayer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kenyas-League-of-Extravagant-Grannies-Osborne-Macharia-2-715x425.jpg\" alt=\"Kenyas-League-of-Extravagant-Grannies-Osborne-Macharia-2\" width=\"715\" height=\"425\" \/><br \/>\nOsborne Macharia: \u201cMRS. S WERE \u2013 FORMER ECONOMIST AND PERSONAL ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT (1972-1992)\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-79995 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/oka-cdn.okayplayer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kenyas-League-of-Extravagant-Grannies-Osborne-Macharia--715x427.jpg\" alt=\"Kenyas-League-of-Extravagant-Grannies-Osborne-Macharia-\" width=\"715\" height=\"427\" \/><br \/>\nOsborne Macharia: \u201cMS. M ADHIAMBO \u2013 FORMER MINISTER OF TRADE &amp; INDUSTRY (1972-1980)\u201d<\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-202339\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Kenyas-League-of-Extravagant-Grannies-Osborne-Macharia-3-715x425-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kenyas-League-of-Extravagant-Grannies-Osborne-Macharia-3-715x425 (1)\" width=\"715\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>\nPhoto by Osborne Macharia: \u201cMRS. KAMAU NJUGUNA \u2013 FORMER GOVERNOR, CENTRAL BANK OF KENYA (1980-1985)\u201d<\/h5>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Okay Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big up to African Digital Art for putting us on to Kenya\u2019s League of Extravagant Grannies. NYANYE, the latest\u00a0editorial from Kenyan digital photographer Osborne Macharia, tells a fictional story of badass\u00a0grandmas bringing straight fire to Somalia. In other words, it\u2019s the ultimate in #SquadGoals. As Macharia explains:\u201cThis is the story of Kenya\u2019s League of Extravagant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}