50 Kenyan Tweeps Who Shaped Conversations on Twitter In 2019
Twitter, and more specifically, Kenyan Twitter, is an interesting place, a place where key influential tweeps and even the smallest of individuals can get their voice heard.
It’s a space where we can joke and have serious conversations all in one place.
Someone once joked that Twitter is the only place where a professor will argue with someone seated in their bedsitter. “Enyewe social media imetufanya vichwa ngumu! You can argue with a Top World Economist from your bedsitter in Wangige! 😜” read the tweet.
Nonetheless, when it comes to serious business such as matters affecting the economy, Kenyans on Twitter (KOT) don’t joke.
KOT will analyse anything a politician, leader or anyone in the limelight will say or do, make a trend out of it, come up with memes, both positively and negatively.
KOT is also famous for uniting Kenyans on the social media platform and waging war against other twitter users from other countries.
Kenyans have waged war against South Africans, Ugandans, Rwandans, Tanzanians, Ghana, Nigeria, just to name a few.
2019 has been an eventful year with all sorts of trends and conversations on Twitter.
These conversations and trends would not have been possible had it not been for these influential persons, or as we like to call them, tweeps, on Twitter either sparking, engaging and retweeting conversations.
Politician Twitter Accounts
- William Samoei Ruto – @WilliamsRuto – 2.5M
William is a Kenyan politician and the current Deputy President of Kenya since 2013. He is known to be a cunning politician and has shaped several conversations on social media and especially on Twitter. He has made several trends especially with what he says and what he does.
2. Raila Odinga @RailaOdinga – 2.4M
Raila Amolo Odinga is a controversial Kenyan politician who served as the Prime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013 and Leader of the Opposition since 2013. His recent handshake with President Uhuru Kenyatta, the leader of the ruling party, Jubilee has sparked quite the conversation across the country.
3. Martha Karua – @MarthaKarua – 851.1K.
She is a former long-standing member of parliament for the Gichugu Constituency and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She was Minister of Justice until resigning from that position in April 2009. Karua has consistently fought for the protection of women’s rights and improvements to the democratic process.
4. Mike Sonko – @MikeSonko – 850.4K.
Mbuvi Gideon Kioko Wam Mike Sonko commonly known as Mike Sonko or simply Sonko (Sheng for “rich person” or “boss”) is a Kenyan politician who currently serves as the second Governor of Nairobi since devolution
5. Hon Ababu-Namwamba – @AbabuNamwamba – 334.7K.
Ababu Namwamba E.G.H. (full name Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba) is a Kenyan politician and international lawyer trained in Nairobi and Washington, DC. Since 2016 he has been the leader of the Labour Party of Kenya and is currently the Chief Administrative Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kenya