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Kamene Goro: 'I cautioned women not to date DJs, but life humbled me'

Monday, November 10, 2025

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Radio presenter Kamene Goro and her husband, DJ Bonez.

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By Sinda Matiko

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Nation Media Group

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Kamene Goro has always been bold, unapologetically so. Never one to bite her tongue, she’s built a career on saying what others only dare to think.

Although she’s since stepped away from legacy media, Kamene remains as outspoken and authentic as ever.

If you look at many of the reality shows that are coming out from Kenya, I feel like Nairobians are often misrepresented on screen. We’re often portrayed as simple-minded, and sometimes we look a bit naïve and shallow.

Like, all we ever do is throw parties. But there’s so much more to us. We have women out here who wake up, work hard, build successful careers, and still manage to live full, exciting lives. Reality doesn’t always have to be about drama.

Kamene Goro.

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I honestly think my husband and I would make an entertaining reality show. Between ourselves, we are pretty funny, though he’s definitely the weirdo. We have a very interesting dynamic that most people don’t know. We protect that because sometimes having people in your business gives them an opportunity to ruin it.

My husband (DJ Bonez) and I, have known each other for quite a long time. I first met him when I was 26, now I am 33. We hated each other then, he used to say that I am ratchet. I think, then, I was wild. I was fearless and less unapologetic then than I am now. We became close in 2020 when I used to do Insta markets, and he brought me a few clients from Mombasa.

I know when I used to do those ‘babe girl advice’ clips, I once cautioned that you should never date entertainers or DJs. Life happens, and it has a funny way of humbling you. Here is the thing, you can give advice based on what you know about the industry. Bonez wasn’t the first DJ I dated, which is why I gave that advice.

Had someone told me at 26 when I first met Bonez that I would be married to him today, I would have said, ‘Please shoot me dead’.

I really try my best to live in the real world because with the internet, social media is starting to create a fallacy of a world which people can exist in perfection. That is why I no longer share much on my social media pages.

Jalang’o was the best

Before getting into media, I worked as a paralegal. My big break came when I joined Ebru TV. I was still in my second year of university at the time. My starting salary was Sh36,000, and after a year, it doubled to Sh70,000 because I was performing so well. That was a lot of money for a young girl still in school, it felt like the world had just opened up for me.

As a radio presenter, I worked with many co-presenters, from Andrew Kibe, Oga Obinna, to Jalangó, among others. Of all the co-hosts, Jalang’o was the best to work with. I grew the most when I worked with him. That is the only time I made so much money as a radio host and influencer. It was during Covid, and while most people struggled given the situation, for us, that is when we made a lot of money.

I think I had the most affordable wedding because we married at the Attorney General’s office and paid Sh6,000 then did a small party of about 25 people.

Our family and close friends. Our wedding was mainly financed by cryptocurrency because at the time, we were using Binance.

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