Famend media persona, actress, mannequin, emcee, and fashionista Malaika Tendo Tenshi says she selected to drop her household identify ‘Nnyanzi’ as a result of she wanted to be impartial and to guard her father’s identify from the controversies in her life.
Malaika is the daughter of Owek. Nuwa Wamala Nnyanzi – a revered visible artist and marketing consultant and vice chairperson of the Nationwide Arts and Cultural Crafts Affiliation of Uganda (NACCAU).
Whereas showing on Ruth Kalibbala Bwanika’s YouTube channel, Malaika revealed that her father may be very distinguished and he or she didn’t need to break his identify.
My identify is Malaika Tendo Tenshi. I dropped the Nnyanzi identify as a result of it’s my father’s identify. He’s a really massive and highly effective man who has labored exhausting for his identify so I didn’t need to spoil that in my issues.
She was additionally typically confused with Stella Nnyanzi early on in her profession within the media and he or she wished to be recognized in another way.
Additionally, in my preliminary days working within the media, there was confusion when individuals would name me Stella Nnyanzi so I made a decision to let the identify go.
She additionally believes the identify “Malaika” (translated as “Angel”) is highly effective by itself and that she is comfortable that it bases her id on the Lord. She additionally added the Japanese model of the identify, Tenshi.
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