By Martin Shardow

    NAIROBI, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Kenyans of different walks of life have not been left behind in the ongoing celebrations on the life of the fallen pop-icon Michael Jackson also referred to as MJ.

    Since his demise weeks ago, several radio stations have been playing Jackson's songs and the local broadcasts and newspapers also have been on the lead with the news of his death.

    Excerpts from a weekly show devoted to Michael Jackson and his family aired in the 1970's was a rebroadcast on Kenya's state-run television station, KBC.

    More so, several entertainment joints have also taken the celebrations to the center stage, with some of them organizing shows in honor of the departed legendary king of pop music.

    In Nairobi's Galileos Club, for instance, revelers were treated to two nights of uncompromisable partying in marking their love for MJ. The first show which attacked mostly young people was held a week ago and the other was on last Friday.

    The cause of MJ's death has not yet been determined from autopsies carried out immediately after his death but according to a statement from the family read by his elder brother Randy Jackson, the initial cause of death was cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles .

    According to media reports police in Los Angeles, the United States are still investigating the death and murder has not been ruled out in the probe with his father Joseph Jackson indicating a foul play in the whole issue.

    And law enforcement sources are quoted as saying that they have "plenty of powerful evidence" which suggests that Dr Conrad Murray, his personal doctor administered MJ the drug.

    Denis Ndavi, the commercial manager for Homeboyz Radio, a local station, told Xinhua that the station was interrupting its normal hip-hop programming to devote the weekend to Jackson's music. "Even though our audience is just in their 20's, there's a lot of shock, there's grief even from them," Ndavi said.

    "For a black artist, no one had been that big ever. Everybody liked the fact that there was a black man running the pop charts. Bruce Springsteen was big too, but he didn't resonate as much with Africans."

    Across the continent, reports indicate that there are Africans who have been devastated by the news of MJ's departure. In Nigeria a local radio anchor broke down when she heard the news and couldn't continue her program.

    A spot check at most music shops within in the city center of Nairobi indicated that sales from music by the late king of pop MJ had increased drastically in the last two weeks.

    Almin Gupta of Assanadas Music store along Nairobi's Moi avenue told Xinhua their stocks ran out just two days after the sad news of MJ's dismisses and they had to order more from their suppliers especially for the hit CD Dangerous which was a world wide hit in the early Eights

    Michael Kendege, 37, a Kenyan financial consultant said that he feels, like many in the rest of the world, as though: "A section of my childhood is lost."

    "Michael Jackson was a grate singer. In fact I can remember most of his songs because they were during my teenage hood and nobody wanted to be left out during the break dance moves" said Kendege.

    Jackson's celebrity-studded video "We are the World" was made to raise funds in the wake of an Ethiopian famine in 1985, Jane Muinde who operates a Video theater in Kangundo, some 65 kilometers from Nairobi said business has being booming for the last two weeks.

    "Over the weekends I am having seven shows in a day just for Micheal Jackson's videos which are very popular with young people," Muinde added.