HOW KENNY BECAME A MUSE

Being a twin has its perks. When you are identical and same sex, its easy to play pranks but when it’s a sister who seems to understand every mathematical problem then you are in real trouble. For Kehinde, all through secondary school, he was looking for X. Finding X for Kehinde was crazy because X was on the board and he kept wondering and arguing why he had to go through rigourous calculations to find it. This was in the days when having your child study medicine was the dream of most parents and so science was non-negotiable for Kehinde and his twin. While his sister topped the class and volunteered to help him find X, Kehinde was busy trying to convince everyone that X was in front of them.

Then one day, Kehinde encountered Literature which was a subject for Arts students. But being an adventurous person, he decided to sneak into the class and was captivated by the poems they were learning. According to him, those guys were having fun. He fell in love with Literature and became a regular rat sneaking into the class as often as he could. But of course, every rat always gets caught. You know when you are in love, you tend to do things first and then think later. That’s the only explanation to a science student taking literature tests in a class he wasn't even registered in. 

“Who is ke…i..n..de Baaa….d… urghhhhh… who is Kenny Badmus?” asked the white teacher who couldn’t pronounce Kehinde Bademosi. Was Kehinde angry that his name was wrongly pronounced as Kenny? Nope! He thought it was ‘sexy’ and adopted the name Kenny Badmus which he kept reinventing until it became Kenny Brandmuse. Back to the teacher…
“Who is Kenny Badmus?”she screamed. He snuck out from his hideout in the back seat and admitted to his crime of crashing into her class. But unlike most teachers, the lady recognized his literary gifts and encouraged him to continue even though he was in science class. She went ahead to fight for him to become the first student to be a half-caste (half science, half arts) and be a senior prefect. Kehinde scaled through secondary school not as a science student but as an art student. Then came JAMB and Momsie having bragged to all her friends that ‘Kehinde’ was going to be a lawyer filled in Law for him in his JAMB form. He tried protesting, preferring to study English Language instead but like most Nigerian parents, Kenny’s parents felt that studying English was a useless effort. If only they knew what a rebel their child was.  As young as he was, Kenny bought correcting fluid on his way to submit the form and replaced Law with English. When you find what you love, it consumes you. While everyone at home was celebrating his excellent JAMB result and looking forward to the making of a lawyer, Kenny was parking his bag to begin a journey into the literary world. You know I told you every rat always gets caught

Momsie showed up in school one afternoon looking for her son Kehinde Bademosi in the Faculty of Law. She was shocked when she found out there was no one by that name in the Faculty. Besides, who is Kehinde Bademosi? Then the moment of truth came: Kenny’s mum was briefed by her son that his name was Kenny Badmus and he was studying English Language. Of course she threw tantrums but had no choice but to cooperate. That was his defining moment that released him to soar and today we have Kenny Brandmuse, the guy that makes you feel like you weren’t listening when your teacher taught you Figures Of Speech. He’s the man whose mind is so creatively advanced that you feel yours is in infancy. He’s the Chief Imagination Officer of Orange Academy and the Shepherd to a flock of Orange minds scattered around the world. Today, we appreciate his guts to stand for what he believed in against his parent’s wish.So what's holding you back from pursuing your passion?

WOULDN'T YOU RATHER BE OUTSTANDING?