TOP TRENDS: #SHAKESPEAREGENGE

Twitter just got a whole lot (more) interesting today with the emergence of a trend titled ‘ShakespeareGenge’ a cacophony of humorous and witty ‘adjustments’ to Kenyan lyrics. Kenyans on Twitter went on a literal rampage with popular lines and lyrics that were given a ‘Shakespeare twist’.

If you don’t know William Shakespeare; well he was an English poet and playwright considered as the greatest writer and dramatist. He died in 1616. And there’s even a movie about him – ‘Anonymous’ that explores a conspiracy theory that he was not the author of his own famous works.

Back to the trend on Twitter… It all started with One FM’s presenter Marcus Olang borrowing a leaf from a twitter handle ( @ShakespeareSong ) that altered popular phrases into the lyrical English language flow of Shakespeare’s 16th Century.

Here’s a couple of tweets from the handle that should warm you up to the idea abit:

#ShakespeareGenge radicalized this further with tweets such as:

@Dee_spicable: #ShakespeareGenge ‘Verily I say unto thee, I have traversed the Geographical demarcation’ – Jaguar, ‘nimevuka border’

Now you get the idea, don’t you? Enjoy a cross section of the tweets we picked up;