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Top 10 Classic Kenyan YouTube Clips

I decided to compile a top ten list of some of the “you must see this YOUTUBE clips,” I figure every one has a top ten, top a hundred or top fifty all time favorites. However no one has ever compiled a list for the Kenyan Market. So I took it upon myself to enlighted y’all – these are the most interesting videos that Kenyans are watching/watched across the globe.

At Number one (1)

Nation Television Kenya (NTV) has a weekly political satire news feature that runs on Sundays presented by hilarious TV presenter Emmanuel Juma. This clip features a prominent political affiliate called Stanely Livondo whose wealth and uprise are unknown – however the funniest thing about this well dressed wealthy character is the fact he cant read or pronounce things. Its even more hilarious that he called the press conference to embarrass himself – I mean the person who wrote him the speech should have atleast made sure he read it first. SMH

At Number Two (2)

Brother Franklin during offering time in a local Houston Texas church, The Redeem Christian Church of God. There are conflicting reports that this is actually a Nigerian Church and not really a Kenyan Church in Houston, however I could have sworn Brother Franklin is a Luo – either way he takes my number two spot.

At Number Three (3)

Muthoni Kifagio performed by Short by Tough Karish and Video by Wa Esther Films has to be one of the most emailed music videos of all time within the Kenyan circles. This guy has had more internet fame than any urban or pop (Genge) artists in Kenya. The ridiculousness of the video and the lyrical content is hilarious, there is no way to describe this but just watch – listen and appreciate Kenya

At Number Four (4)

The number of times I talk shit about this guy, you’d think I know him or I have something personal against him. I am just glad he stays in his lane and has been consistent being himself. Fredrick Mutua has all these random Youtube clips that are geared towards marketing Kenya online. His company Kenya Tourism Online focuses on many different things but its his videos that always get me. To me I find them ridiculous and very stereo typical of what he wants the image of Kenya to be. So I often ridicule and poke fun at his theatrics and animated attire – but deep down am sure there is some good he is doing for the country by sending tourist and helping many foreigners with their vacation travel to Kenya.

That said this is one clip you have to watch – as he promotes his Swahili DVD :-)

At Number Five (5)

I am an avid Tom and Jerry fan, mostly because a small part of my childhood life spent tonnes of hours admiring Tom Quimby’s work. Its unfortunate that there arent as many African animated cartoons or classic cartoons that are performed in local dialects – because if that was to ever happen something close to the rendition below would take place. This is some guys rendition of T&J in swahili – it cracks my balls. This is actually Swahili from Mombasa which also has distinctive accents that can be very infectious if you listen to entire conversations.

At Number Six (6)

Although I am not Kikuyu, I can understand a few words here and there, this video cracked my balls – as much as its a serious documentary, some of the choice of words are hilarious. So someone actually decided to make a home video about Snow in Wisconsin Madison in Kikuyu from start to finish – You gotta love some Kenyans out there.

At Number Seven (7)

A friend called Rags actually put this together somewhere out here in the US. Its hilarious none the less, I actually love the editing that complements the humor. This was done a while back when Cribs was one of the more popular MTV shows – these days no one really watches Cribs, it sort of makes me want to see a Cribs African Edition. As much as I put this on my top ten – I think I will put Omondis cribs with this one because i also enjoyed Omondis Cribs Kenyan Edition (You gotta love it when Omondi says Babek Meaning BBQ)

Omondis Crib

At Number Eight (8)

I watch a lot of commercials, so its rare for me to actually youtube a commercial to watch it over and over and over again. I think by far the Coca Cola BRRRRR Campaign in Africa has to be the most effective in 2009. I think it was so big that they made different variations of the same commerical for the Asian market, Norther African market and also the Indian market. I prefer the East/Central African version which has the well famed African actor Joseph Olita … BRRRRRRRR

At Number Nine (9)

Am not really sure why I list this on my top ten list but I think the sheer fact that any president can call a press conference to debate his personal affairs is just comedy. We’ve seen so many different sides of the current Kenyan first lady – so this was not any different. What I found interesting rather what I thought after watching this was – DAMN that Lucy got her house on LOCK!!! she runs the white house not the other way round… You Go Girl! If your man is creaping – the best way to address that is tell him to publicly disown his Clande! right ? SMH

At Number Ten (10)

Nyanza meets Japan – I really want to say a lot about this video but I cant – this was probably one of the first NTV news clips that i thought was worthy to be online. Am just amazed at how she quickly learned to pluck that Nyatiti – you know what !! just watch the damn video

This entry was written by leofaya, posted on July 18, 2009 at 10:56 am, filed under Changing Lanes, Random Ridiculousness and tagged , , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.