{"id":150635,"date":"2024-02-13T03:44:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T03:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/13\/shenseea-cites-safety-concerns-for-cancelled-nairobi-show\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T03:44:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T03:44:43","slug":"shenseea-cites-safety-concerns-for-cancelled-nairobi-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/13\/shenseea-cites-safety-concerns-for-cancelled-nairobi-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Shenseea Cites Safety Concerns for Cancelled Nairobi Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-298492\" alt=\"\" width=\"903\" height=\"549\"  data-lazy- src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/shenseea1.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-298492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/shenseea1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"903\" height=\"549\"  \/>The dance hall sensation Chinsea Linda Lee, popularly known as Shenseea, has explained the reasons for canceling her Kenyan concert scheduled for August 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The highly anticipated Sababisha Festival, initially scheduled for August 26, 2022, at Uhuru Gardens was rescheduled to October but it still never came to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the postponement, Shenseea had apologized to her Kenyan fanbase without revealing the reasons for the cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Hit and Run\u2019 has however been forced to set the record straight after a supposed ticket buyer asked her about the Sababisha Festival.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe paid for your concert in Kenya and till date, we\u2019ve never seen you (\ud83d\udc94)\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the fan wrote on the singer\u2019s IG.<\/p>\n<p>Shenseea replied: \u201cSo I was booked for Kenya and due to safety concerns that were brought to my attention, I was told it was best to reschedule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notably, in the weeks leading to the show, there was political unrest, with the leader of Opposition Raila Odinga leading his supporters in the infamous \u2018Maandamanos\u2019. Perhaps, these could be the security concerns that Shenseea could be alluding to.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Jamaican songbird assured her Kenyan fans that the event promoters had informed her that they would refund all the money.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI chose to refund my deposit than hold on to it without a date being set. The promoters assured me that all monies would be refunded to patrons as well,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Sababisha Festival\u2019 featured tickets ranging from Kes. 3,000 to Kes. 8,000.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI look forward to performing in Kenya soon. Thank you to all my supporters for understanding,\u201d<\/em> Shenseea concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dance hall sensation Chinsea Linda Lee, popularly known as Shenseea, has explained the reasons for canceling her Kenyan concert scheduled for August 2023. 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Prior to the postponement, Shenseea had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shenseea Cites Safety Concerns for Cancelled Nairobi Show - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/13\/shenseea-cites-safety-concerns-for-cancelled-nairobi-show\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shenseea Cites Safety Concerns for Cancelled Nairobi Show - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The dance hall sensation Chinsea Linda Lee, popularly known as Shenseea, has explained the reasons for canceling her Kenyan concert scheduled for August 2023. 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