{"id":38135,"date":"2018-09-06T21:19:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T21:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mafikizolo-arrive-in-kigali-for-kwita-izina\/"},"modified":"2018-09-06T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T21:25:08","slug":"mafikizolo-arrive-in-kigali-for-kwita-izina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mafikizolo-arrive-in-kigali-for-kwita-izina\/","title":{"rendered":"Mafikizolo arrive in Kigali for Kwita Izina festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the dinner, Mafikizolo will participate in gorilla naming ceremony, locally known as Kwita Izina, taking place at the volcanoes foothill in Kinigi, Musanze District of the Northern Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>The two and their six-member supporting team have landed in Kigali this Thursday.<br \/>\nMafikizolo and local Gakondo Group will perform at Igitaramo-Cultural Celebratory Gala Dinner to entertain a range of guests now in the country for the Kwita Izina.<\/p>\n<p>Mafikizolo was last in Rwanda in July 2016. At the occasion, the duo entertained guests at the 27th Ordinary African Union Summit of Heads of State and Governments.  <\/p>\n<p>This Friday, 23 gorilla infants will be given names by high profile people.<\/p>\n<p>They include RnB Star Alioune Damala Badara Thiam, aka Akon on stage; Legendary Arsenal and Cameroun footballer Laureano Bisan Etam\u00e9-Mayer, aka Lauren; and former Nigeria President Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27162 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1536217429_1__5_-c882c.jpg\" alt=\"South African Musicians Theo Kgosinkwe and Nhlanhla Nciza, commonly known under the duo name of Mafikizolo have arrived in Kigali for Kwita Izina Gala Dinner\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African Musicians Theo Kgosinkwe and Nhlanhla Nciza bearing a duo name of Mafikizolo have arrived in Kigali for a performance at Kwita Izina Gala Dinner in Rubavu District, tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38135"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38135"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}