Are All The Rumours About Strut It Afrika True? Find Out The Truth Of The Matter Here Part 1

I have been seeing a blog post purporting to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but. Unfortunately, it is one sided and imbalanced. So I sought out the Strut It Africa officials to ask them for their side of the story. They obliged.

I also attempted to reach out to models who may be disgruntled after working with Strut It Africa but none was forthcoming. So I could only run this but given that it seeks to explain to the concerned members of the public their side of the story after the blog post savagely attacked the integrity of the brand Strut It Africa, I guess it balances out.

This is what the management of Strut It Africa had to say:

 

A STATEMENT FROM THE STRUT IT AFRIKA MANAGING DIRECTOR

Dear All,

It has come to our attention that a blog that goes by the name hottcrunch.blogspot.com has posted a

negative article about Strut It Afrika and some of its members.

We would like to urge all readers to please scrutinize this blog properly.

What is their source?

What is their angle?

Is this information reliable?

What about other topics posted by the blog?

It seems the only thing they could get right was the logo and images from our facebook page. Even

their grammar is questionable. Even after posting our logo, they still get our company name wrong

“Strut It Africa” is not “Strut It Afrika”.

Quoting from their blog, “Whenever Auditions are conducted, all the selected Models have to pay $.

100 (Ksh. 8,000) for a professional photo-shoot which apparently is not professional as it’s conducted

by themselves under the guide of Rnaze, Joe and Malaika. So basically No pro Photographer is called

in to do the Photos. They then edit these photos on Photoshop and post them online to attract more

admirers”

Firstly, Jo Kisila is a model at Strut it Afrika. He is not part of management and has never directed a

shoot by Strut It Afirka as insinuated by this blog.

Secondly, they go ahead to post images which were shot by Thomson Ncube, a photographer based

in Kenya who has been working closely with Strut It Afirka since 2012. They however argue that the

images were shot by Jo or Rnaze or Malaika.

Quoting from their blog, “For Starters, in the modelling world photos are the major selling point and

Serious Talent Agencies do not charge for this”

This was part of the response from Lyndsey of Surazuri Modeling Agency on their blog site:

“I don’t want to comment on the integrity of a rival agency, but I do wish to point out that agencies

worldwide do not generally do portfolio photo shoots for free. Sometimes the bigger international

agency outlay for this, but they deduct the cost from the model’s future earnings- Lyndsey of

Surazuri”.

Clearly the person/people writing this blog have no information whatsoever on how agencies run but

are out to mislead others.