If the Channel O Music Video Awards are anything to go by, Shike is Botswana's premier music video director. His work first caught everyone's attention when music video fans across the continent voted Mista Doe's Hot to Death video, done in conjunction with Itseng kae Phape, as the Best Hip Hop video from Southern Africa.
To the unsuspecting eye, the video looked nothing like Gaborone; even the railway station looked like it was out of this world. That shot of the young Motswana model with the bottle of water, the stuff of every warm-blooded Tswana male's fantasy. Just when we thought it was going to be a one-hit wonder, Olsen upped his game when his well-scripted and shot video for Acid's Banyana le Basimane won, against incredible competitors from Nigeria and South Africa, yet another award. Once again this year, Olsen's videos for rapper Zeus (Imagination for Best Reggae) and house music producer and one-half of the now defunct Acid, Leroy (Merafe for Best Dance category) are up for awards.
