Kenyan YouTubers who have transitioned to TV.

Simon Says Maingi
3 min readApr 15, 2019

1. Zindzi Kibiku

Zindzi Kibiku

Zindzi is a Kenyan YouTuber who is bubbly in character. She has does skits that are funny quirky.
She started her YouTube journery four years ago with videos like this one below:

Types of people in church

Now she has transitioned to mainstream by starting off at KTN as a reporter and now she is hosting Day Break on Citizen TV every morning at 8am.

2. Sharon Macharia

sharon macharia

Sharon Macharia is a Kenyan YouTuber who focuses on personally vlogs and also fun and entertaining interviews.

She has done interviews with Octopizzo and also collaborations with the likes of 25 and over.

Here is her interview with Octopizzo:

Sharon and Octopizzo

She is now currently a host on BBC Africa.

3. This is ess

sharon mundia

Sharon Mundia, popularly known as THIS IS ESS, is an award winning Kenyan YouTuber who makes a lot of video content on beauty and personal vlogs.

Here is one of her popular videos on her channel:

this is ess

She has now transitioned to television where she hosts a morning show called Living with ESS on NTV from 8am.

4. Charlie Karumi

charlie karumi

Charlie Karumi is one fun Kenyan YouTuber to watch.

He started his channel doing funny videos but he has transitioned to personal vlogs like this one he did when he went to the Oscars:

charlie at the oscars

Charlie transitioned to television when he hosted arena 254 for a while then he moved to host The Scoop on Kwese TV. He is also a vibrant radio host on NRG radio where he hosts other YouTubers on his show every Saturday at 5-7pm.

4. Simon Says

simon says

Simon Says is a Kenyan YouTuber who you have to see if you want a good laugh matched with crazy energy.

He makes content about topics that a lot of people are afraid to talk about like this one he did about how Kenyans view gay people:

what kenyans think about gay people

His wild energy got him a TV show on ebru tv called According to Simon.
Simon Says is currently now a lecturer at Zalego teaching digital media production.

simon says maingi and enos olik at zalego

there is the list of kenyan youtubers who are in our tv stations. if you feel like i have left someone out please leave a comment down below

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Simon Says Maingi

I am a Kenyan Digital Marketing Instructor who helps businesses and brands grow online