Kenyan Memes Explode on the Internet

If there’s one art that will never get old then it happens to be the craft of making people laugh. And what better way to utilize the growing culture that is internet memes.

By very defnition, a ‘meme’ is an idea, behaviour or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. This then acts as a cultural symbol or practice which is then carried through various media and it seems what Kenyans are most responsive to is visual representation.

We’ve had memes using a variety of figures such as the Italian footballer Balotelli following his less than spectacular finish at the Euro 2012 extravaganza as well as our very own Denis Oliech who has been ‘experimenting’ with his fashion sense.

These are but a few of the examples of hundreds or even thousands of memes which have been used to humor people around the globe. In line with this, there’s a new Facebook group titled ‘Kenyan Internet Memes’ which features numerous memes. It all exploded with the inclusion of the picture featured to the right of this article.

For more of these, go to the page on Facebook: Kenyan Internet Memes