{"id":15641,"date":"2024-03-20T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/tanzania-mourns-comedian-behind-kata-simu-tupo-site-phrase\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:03:09","slug":"tanzania-mourns-comedian-behind-kata-simu-tupo-site-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/tanzania-mourns-comedian-behind-kata-simu-tupo-site-phrase\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania mourns comedian behind \u2018Kata simu tupo site\u2019 phrase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 20 \u2014 Tanzanian comedian Umar Iahbedi Issa alias \u2018Mzee wa Mjegeje\u2019 who coined the famous \u201cKata sumu tupo site\u201d phrase is dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His manager Real Jimmy said the popular comedian passed away at a hospital in Dar es Salam on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The famous phrase translated as \u201chang up (the phone), I am on site\u201d is famous in online platforms in Kenya. Users often use it to confirm their presence or arrival at social events.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 20 \u2014 Tanzanian comedian Umar Iahbedi Issa alias \u2018Mzee wa Mjegeje\u2019 who coined the famous \u201cKata sumu tupo site\u201d phrase is dead. His manager Real Jimmy said the popular comedian passed away at a hospital in Dar es Salam on Wednesday. The famous phrase translated as \u201chang up (the phone), I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}