Tanasha Donna Reveals Plans To Leave Kenya Permanently

She expressed her disgust at the current state of affairs in the country in 2023

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May 2, 2023 - 09:38 Updated: May 2, 2023 - 09:39
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Tanasha Donna Reveals Plans To Leave Kenya Permanently
Tanasha Donna posing for a photo. /INSTAGRAM

Kenyan singer Tanasha Donna on Monday, May 1 declared her intention to relocate from Kenya, potentially becoming the latest celebrity to do so.

On her Instagram stories, she expressed her disgust at the current state of affairs in the country in 2023, with headline events such as the Shakahola Massacre and Azimio la Umoja protests bringing the country to its knees.

Affirming what she said as the truth, Tanasha noted that she was working on plans to move out of the country with her family, though she did not reveal the exact date she would leave.

"I ain't gon' (going to) lie, this country is a total mess. I'm trynna (trying to) take my fam (family) and baggage and leave for good.

Kenyan singer, Tanasha Donna. /FILE

"Total mess rn** cause we do progress in various other ways but it's like since 2023 every day something absurd happening. Kenya Wagwan?" Tanasha wrote.

Tanasha, a Nairobi-based artist, was born in England, grew up in Kenya, and spent half of her life in Belgium; This life allowed her to communicate fluently in five languages.

If she decides to honour her plans of moving out of Kenya, she will join a growing list of Kenyans who have moved to Europe or the USA for various reasons.

Kenyan actor Eddie Gathegi moved to the US and has since starred in several movies, including The Blacklist, House, Dr Geoffrey, Twilight and X-Men: First Class while singer Stella Mwangi, also known as STL, relocated to Norway and bagged several awards.

Oscar-winning screen star Lupita Nyong'o lives abroad and only visits Kenya occasionally to see her family while legendary rapper Nonini moved to the United States (US) after dominating the Kenyan music industry for a while.

The 2023 Knight Frank Wealth Report on Wednesday, March 1, however, revealed that Kenya is turning to a preferred investment country for a majority of super-rich individuals across the world to purchase new homes, with 60 per cent of investors opting to invest in Kenya, and 50 per cent choosing the United Kingdom (UK), among other countries.

"What we're seeing in 2022 is definitely a rebound in the residential market, we had a quiet period over the last five years. We saw huge growth for a long period and then it's been quite stable because our growth was too high, too quickly and so things stabilised. Then we had COVID and then we had the elections and things had been quite stagnant in terms of transactions and everything.

"What we noticed in 2022 is that as we sort of came through the other side of COVID and furthermore we had a very quiet election, people's decision to buy...people were much more interested in buying second homes or looking at buying bigger primary residences or having the confidence that the market was there and that the wealth was secure or it wasn't as risky," Tarquin Gross, the head of the residential agency in Knight Frank Kenya, had revealed to Viral Tea.

An infographic showing preferred countries for purchasing a new home. /MARVIN CHEGE.VIRALTEAKE