Alex Mwakideu (born on March 6th 1980) is a Kenyan radio personality and a businessman. He has worked in leading media houses in Kenya and abroad.
Mwakideu was a student at Shimo La Tewa high school where he was expelled after fighting the principal.
Talking on Miss Trudy’s YouTube channel, the presenter recounted how his mother took him to school and only paid his admission fee since she couldn’t afford to pay his tuition fee.
Background
The radio presenter was born and raised in Mombasa. His rural home is in Taita Taveta county in a place known as Wundanyi. His family was extremely poor. Together with his six siblings and parents, they lived in a single room.
Mwakideu’s father worked as a cook in school and would sometimes bring left-overs to his family. The family patriarch passed on in 2011.
He tattooed his late father on his arm as a tribute to a man who had a positive impact on his life.
