Meet the man behind your favorite Nairobi Matatu, Moha Graffix.
Moha Graffix is the reason has why people on Nairobi matatu stages wait for their favorite nganyas for hours.
Moha Graffix is the one man behind all the Nairobi matatus Beauty with his excellent talents in graffiti and painting. He was born and raised in Eastlands Nairobi.
Moha had to battle as a young soldier to survive in Nairobi’s toughest streets after losing his parents at a young age.
In a recent interview, he stated that life was so difficult that he could not afford to buy new shoes and that he could wear the same shoes every day until they were torn.
Moha explained that sketching graffitis was the only way he could survive off his talent and that because the graffiti industry wasn’t doing anything unique, he had to come up with his style, which is now ruling the streets of Nairobi.
“People were creating uninteresting staffs, which encouraged me to do graffiti; I wanted to come up with my style,” Moha explained in an interview.
He went on to say that his first car was rejected despite his tireless efforts to make it appear amazing. This gave him optimism in what he was doing and motivated him to keep trying till he succeeded.
On his first matatu, he was doing level-based graffiti, and a popular automobile on the streets dubbed Ganja Farm opened doors to his art.
Despite the current situation, Moha advises youths to concentrate harder on their future. “Your Tomorrow has to be better than today,” Moha said.
He was running a company of 47 workers before the Covid19 epidemic in Kenya, and he had to limit the number.
