im soo soo surprised to HEAR people say that when they are in kenya they are known as AMERICAN and when they are in America they r known as KENYAN!!! OMG how is that even possible, which part of kenya did u go to coz i live in ROMANIA and i go home every year, and no1 ever calls me ROMANIAN coz i might b married there and citizen but im 100% KENYAN. u guys crack me up!!
@velisima100 hahah well i was born and raised in america. so to my family that's born and raised in kenya i'm nothing like them -- different culture. but when i was growing up here in the U.S., all the kids just see the different last name and my parents speaking another language and i'm tagged as Kenyan. So it's like i can morph into whoever i want to be. shared identities! i think that's how it is for a majority of first generation americans: we live in two worlds.
This was good. I came to America when I was 12 now am 22. I went back in Kenya in 2009 n I was perceived as a foreigner. I embrace both cultures but I'll forever be Kenyan! I confuse people with my accent too. Lol gotta love it :))
Hey Evelyn, I think you should be celebrating rather than feeling conflicted about "being in the middle" as a first generation Kenyan-American you have the best of both worlds! Many of us first generation immigrants who came here in our late teens actually feel the same - lived here too long to be able to fully fit in when we visit Kenya yet cant 100% fit in here too. I enjoy having the best of both! Impressed at your depth of knowledge and interest in Kenya and that you like Genge! Cheers.
Kenyan Tag brap! brap! brap! Love Miriam Makeda.....Love the wraps, interesting that the have written sayings on them.....well you know we love our Milo too. Okay I'm loving the music! You really did a great job on your tag. Loved it!
I love your videos!!! I can relate ALOT! I'm kenyan too ! (bullet!)utashinda pretty much means you shall win....shout out to your girl if you are ever in vegas!! =)
Lady.. the fact that you are born in America does not mean anything. You are still Kenyan, Stop acting like you are half. YOU ARE ON A HUGE DENIAL !!!
@essynish LOL! never said i was half. to my cousins born/raised in kenya, they'd laugh at me (& they do) if i ever claimed to be "kenyan kabisa" ("completely kenyan"). That's why i say i'm kenyan american. American by culture and nationality. Kenyan by heritage. A heritage i love. I am my Kenyan parents' American child, they tell me this all the time. When I'm in Kenya, i will ALWAYS be known as the American. And when I'm here, people know me as the Kenyan. I choose to be both, and that's okay.
@sunnyashers lol THANKS! and yes gotta embrace that culture! i LOVE (1) justaband (2) Sauti Sol and (3) harry kimani. Haiya by Harry Kimani is the jammmmmmmmmm i also love the Longombas. it's cool cuz their uncle is Awilo Longomba the famous congolese musician.
wow lot of the Kenyan culture is so evident in my country (Trinidad) I really love this tag it reinforced a lot of what I've learnt in my Caribbean Studies classes lol... you know the whole colonialization, conglomeration of cultures thing. Thanks for this =)
You had me jamming with the music! I have had to learn about my paternal side's culture from online. My father doesn't talk about our Guyanese family at all. And my grandmother doesn't talk about where her people are from either. I think it is so awesome that you know so much about your culture!
I feel you about that conflict thing... My family is Guyanese, of course a everyone older than me was born in Guyana... me being the first one born in the US is kinda weird... full blown America's know I'm different when I open my mouth... But Guyanese aren't haven't... I'm a Yankee through and through to them. That's alright, I have my own sub-culture going on :-)
I loved your tag, Evelyn! I appreciate your representing Africa. Big ups to Kenya! I'm nigerian myself. Loved all your accents. Actually I liked everything about your tag! Said that twice! Thanks for sharing this with us :)
hmmm, i didn't know you were first generation american. i think that's one of things that contributes to your coolness... i just couldn't put my finger on it. sweet!
!! Loved it. Your Naija accent is good, lol. I'm Jamaican btw, just got too many African friends, lol. I'm the same way with that whole, "you're not black, your Jamaican/your not Jamaican you're American" blah blah. I hate* that. Eh, c'est la vie, ya can't please er'body! <3
I live in NYC, and I have never met anyone from outside West Africa. IDK. I am Nigerian, 1st born here too. Your Naija accent it very good, my darling! I learned something about Kenyans, yay!
YAY! KENYAN TAG!!! Girl! I'm all about Kenya. I'm actually moving there, from TX, in 1 month exactly! Murang'a represent! Lol. I loooooooooooove Kikuyus, so kudos for being in that gene pool. Lol. Also, I'm pretty sure I have that same leso. Thanks for this upload, you got me even more excited for going back!
(thinks to self): Did she say, BULLET BULLET?? hahahaha love it! You are hilarious and learned a lot about the culture so thanks for sharing. I probably should do a Haitian tag...*ponders*
lol no pimple at all that was a funny video...come and let lay 2ether in the bright sunny weather lets all go to gulla gulla island but serious i learned something...ps your next tag you should do a video/tutorial on the food it soounds goooooddddd
in honour of this i am sipping on my ketepa chai and listening to sauti sol #cosign: ribena, milo, blue band, nyama choma with kachumbari and ugali, mandazi, chapati, githeri, tusker..my country, my beer :) no drinking under 18 lol and pilau with the garam masala spice is kenyan all day! WHAT! i need to get off here, get my british tea time in and go eat xx
@WomanInTheJungle YES! sooooooo many. i actually can't do a kenyan accent because i hang out with so many nigerians. i can only do one when i go home :/ LOL
I luv Milo, hv a tubful here in college too lol. I'm Ghanaian in Canada. not 1st generation tho :) Do u know any Ghanaian ppl? I rly like ur vids. Ur too chill. Did u know dat?? hehehe laterz
My family always drinks tea with milk. Maybe I'm Kenyan too!!! (Just kidding) I am African American, but I have not found out which West-African country my ancestors came from....my cousin is working on that research now....
I like the kenyan national anthem, first heard it on the 08 summer olympics, it sounds so...idk, official i guess, lol. And aww man, so simba's name was just lion in swahilli, how lame of disney, where's the creativity??!! That kenyan music you played sounds good, much like reggae.
I don't know where my ancestors are from, but none of my great-great grandparents, great grandparents, or grandparents were directly from Africa(as in having stepped foot on african land)....
I enjoyed this vid. Long? Oh, no. You're adorable. It's sort-of hard for some black (notice the b is in lower case) Americans to associate with America. So, when you say culture for blacks in America it is a wide variety of things. We, black Americans, find other cultures very intriguing because you can say this is what "my" ppl believe and do. There is no collective belief just politics and business.
Lol at the Milo comment... I am Haitian and "Milo" was a staple growing up. I completely agree wih you about bein 1st generation, you always feel like you are in the middle.
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Check out TheChykychy... I did a Kenyan Tag video as well
TheChykychy 9 hours ago
Not Kenyan, but reppin' Lesotho and South Africa! Team AFRICA!!!
neochasez 19 hours ago
I'm almost tempted to start making videos.
By the way, there's a 5-part basic Kiswahili series on yt. This is part 1 watch?v=7M9f_Fx4paI
TetuaMaana 1 month ago
@TetuaMaana : go for it i started doing mine few weeks ago check out my channel.
kenyagirl2009 3 weeks ago
REPRESENTIN THE +254!!!!.....KENYAN TO THE CORE :) AND TOTALLY PROUD!
afrykanqwin 1 month ago
oohh i can teach u swahili if u want.......
velisima100 1 month ago
@velisima100 I AM READY TO LEARN, PROFESSOR! lol i'm serious *___*
spicyeve 1 month ago
im soo soo surprised to HEAR people say that when they are in kenya they are known as AMERICAN and when they are in America they r known as KENYAN!!! OMG how is that even possible, which part of kenya did u go to coz i live in ROMANIA and i go home every year, and no1 ever calls me ROMANIAN coz i might b married there and citizen but im 100% KENYAN. u guys crack me up!!
velisima100 1 month ago
@velisima100 hahah well i was born and raised in america. so to my family that's born and raised in kenya i'm nothing like them -- different culture. but when i was growing up here in the U.S., all the kids just see the different last name and my parents speaking another language and i'm tagged as Kenyan. So it's like i can morph into whoever i want to be. shared identities! i think that's how it is for a majority of first generation americans: we live in two worlds.
spicyeve 1 month ago
I gotta do this!!!!!
TAExAboveAverage 4 months ago
+254!!! *Bullet! Bullet* =)
MissNaturallyNatural 6 months ago
I am Kenyan!!! eyyyy Najivunia kuwa mkenya~!
Wanjiku94 7 months ago
ahahahha..lol. i feel your pain lol
EyBabyGurl 7 months ago
i wanna teach youuuuuuuuuuuu
coookie517 8 months ago
Utashinda means you'll win
2010aliyah 8 months ago
I went to Kenya on a photography trip, and let me tell you... You are lucky to be Kenyan! They are such BEAUTIFUL people, so peaceful and happy ! :D
RyaAndMoxxy 9 months ago
KENYANS STAND UP !! (:
iBErockinlike123 10 months ago
I gotta make one of these tag videos. Sounds fun :))
akeinamuye 10 months ago
This was good. I came to America when I was 12 now am 22. I went back in Kenya in 2009 n I was perceived as a foreigner. I embrace both cultures but I'll forever be Kenyan! I confuse people with my accent too. Lol gotta love it :))
akeinamuye 10 months ago
Hey Evelyn, I think you should be celebrating rather than feeling conflicted about "being in the middle" as a first generation Kenyan-American you have the best of both worlds! Many of us first generation immigrants who came here in our late teens actually feel the same - lived here too long to be able to fully fit in when we visit Kenya yet cant 100% fit in here too. I enjoy having the best of both! Impressed at your depth of knowledge and interest in Kenya and that you like Genge! Cheers.
MississippiBryo 10 months ago
Kenyan Tag brap! brap! brap! Love Miriam Makeda.....Love the wraps, interesting that the have written sayings on them.....well you know we love our Milo too. Okay I'm loving the music! You really did a great job on your tag. Loved it!
splinta24 10 months ago
I love your videos!!! I can relate ALOT! I'm kenyan too ! (bullet!)utashinda pretty much means you shall win....shout out to your girl if you are ever in vegas!! =)
amani7777 10 months ago
Lady.. the fact that you are born in America does not mean anything. You are still Kenyan, Stop acting like you are half. YOU ARE ON A HUGE DENIAL !!!
essynish 10 months ago
@essynish LOL! never said i was half. to my cousins born/raised in kenya, they'd laugh at me (& they do) if i ever claimed to be "kenyan kabisa" ("completely kenyan"). That's why i say i'm kenyan american. American by culture and nationality. Kenyan by heritage. A heritage i love. I am my Kenyan parents' American child, they tell me this all the time. When I'm in Kenya, i will ALWAYS be known as the American. And when I'm here, people know me as the Kenyan. I choose to be both, and that's okay.
spicyeve 10 months ago 13
you dance good girl
jumpkeeable 10 months ago
I think you should just do an entire vlog of you dancing. It's like, becoming my favorite part of your vids, lol.
msmchy 10 months ago
lol your Nigerian accent was good lol
pinkflower350 10 months ago
Eh eh!!!!! My dear, you do a fiiiiiiine Naija accent! looool. I'm gonna do a Ghanaian tag!
estadje 10 months ago
@nobby481 ayyeee! *bullets* very cool, my friend. peace!
spicyeve 10 months ago
hands down.. loved it. its awesome to see people (especially our generation) still embrace their own culture. the music was awesome!!
What are some of your favorite kenyan artist?
and as usual you had me kerrr-ackin up!!!! XD
sunnyashers 10 months ago
@sunnyashers lol THANKS! and yes gotta embrace that culture! i LOVE (1) justaband (2) Sauti Sol and (3) harry kimani. Haiya by Harry Kimani is the jammmmmmmmmm i also love the Longombas. it's cool cuz their uncle is Awilo Longomba the famous congolese musician.
spicyeve 10 months ago
Great Vid Evy! Thanks fro sharing!
brownbutterflie 10 months ago
THANK YOU FOR BEING SO HILARIOUS!
seniorrr08 10 months ago
You are too cool!
jadaguil 10 months ago
Love this! Thanks for sharing :)
Cynimon1 10 months ago
wow lot of the Kenyan culture is so evident in my country (Trinidad) I really love this tag it reinforced a lot of what I've learnt in my Caribbean Studies classes lol... you know the whole colonialization, conglomeration of cultures thing. Thanks for this =)
p03ticuti3 10 months ago
lol you r too hilarious lovin d tag im subbin
p03ticuti3 10 months ago
You had me jamming with the music! I have had to learn about my paternal side's culture from online. My father doesn't talk about our Guyanese family at all. And my grandmother doesn't talk about where her people are from either. I think it is so awesome that you know so much about your culture!
MsKai82 10 months ago
fun tag. learned a lot about kenyan culture. thanks. btw, love your vids; they are so funny.
adassa 10 months ago
love the vid^^
i don´t know where my dad comes from or witch ethnic group my fam comes from..whatever ;D
btw, i hope you don´t dance like this in a club lol
KinkyLiciouse 10 months ago
Jambo Evelyn. I didn't know you were Kenyan. :)
Natashalulu 10 months ago
Very entertaining as usual. Dunno if Kenyan tv is ready for you lol. I didn't really catch what you said about Obama's 'tribe' .
mphoregoeng 10 months ago
Long, but very worth it! Thanks for sharing this!
mgillespie12 10 months ago
I feel you about that conflict thing... My family is Guyanese, of course a everyone older than me was born in Guyana... me being the first one born in the US is kinda weird... full blown America's know I'm different when I open my mouth... But Guyanese aren't haven't... I'm a Yankee through and through to them. That's alright, I have my own sub-culture going on :-)
TheCoilWhisperer 10 months ago
Loved the tag Eve!! Proudly Kenyan :-) You got me wanting chapati at 4 a.m SMH! I can teach you some swahili, you'rer actually doing good so far
MissJay86 10 months ago
omfg. your dream is the same as mine. to improve kenyan programming.
pnklmonade127 10 months ago
Loved it!! Great music
madlovely85 10 months ago
I loved your tag, Evelyn! I appreciate your representing Africa. Big ups to Kenya! I'm nigerian myself. Loved all your accents. Actually I liked everything about your tag! Said that twice! Thanks for sharing this with us :)
prettikitti 10 months ago
btw the kanga/leso "utashinda" means you will win or winning so in full it says "take heart and you will win"
valomelo 10 months ago
@valomelo THANK YOU! :D
spicyeve 10 months ago
i want to know the Kenyan genge artist and songs you were listening to?
valomelo 10 months ago
@valomelo i think i put it in the description box. lemme know if you can/can't see it. sometimes youtube doesn't save my info :/
spicyeve 10 months ago
hmmm, i didn't know you were first generation american. i think that's one of things that contributes to your coolness... i just couldn't put my finger on it. sweet!
atribitt 10 months ago
Omg this is soo cool!!! i like watching ethnicity tags...your hilarious! i love the music
sdelice007 10 months ago
!! Loved it. Your Naija accent is good, lol. I'm Jamaican btw, just got too many African friends, lol. I'm the same way with that whole, "you're not black, your Jamaican/your not Jamaican you're American" blah blah. I hate* that. Eh, c'est la vie, ya can't please er'body! <3
Geezeimhungry 10 months ago
Great Tag!! BRAP, BRAP, BRAP! lmao
tonidaley80 10 months ago
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
DorotheasFavs 10 months ago
I live in NYC, and I have never met anyone from outside West Africa. IDK. I am Nigerian, 1st born here too. Your Naija accent it very good, my darling! I learned something about Kenyans, yay!
ade52286 10 months ago
You are too funny! Thanks for sharing. I learned a lot. Happy Friday to you.
ShareeWord 10 months ago
YAY! KENYAN TAG!!! Girl! I'm all about Kenya. I'm actually moving there, from TX, in 1 month exactly! Murang'a represent! Lol. I loooooooooooove Kikuyus, so kudos for being in that gene pool. Lol. Also, I'm pretty sure I have that same leso. Thanks for this upload, you got me even more excited for going back!
TheLycross 10 months ago
Yesssssss to RIBENA! Hooked on it when I went to my Jajas in Uganda! Your music made me so happy =] Im first generation too
iMMAH17 10 months ago
(thinks to self): Did she say, BULLET BULLET?? hahahaha love it! You are hilarious and learned a lot about the culture so thanks for sharing. I probably should do a Haitian tag...*ponders*
TinoM24 10 months ago 7
@TinoM24 HAITIAN TAG!!! DO IT!!! *bullet bullet* let me know and i'll watch it for sure!!!
spicyeve 10 months ago
Nice vid! I like learning about Kenyan culture. I'm Nigerian American (1st in my family born in America) so I understand the in-between feeling.
Lifeisagift1990 10 months ago
your Naija accent is good, o!!!
missjure 10 months ago
lol no pimple at all that was a funny video...come and let lay 2ether in the bright sunny weather lets all go to gulla gulla island but serious i learned something...ps your next tag you should do a video/tutorial on the food it soounds goooooddddd
sheka03 10 months ago
@sheka03 THAT WAS MY SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!! pahahaha maybe i'll get my mom to be in a video one day.
spicyeve 10 months ago
in honour of this i am sipping on my ketepa chai and listening to sauti sol #cosign: ribena, milo, blue band, nyama choma with kachumbari and ugali, mandazi, chapati, githeri, tusker..my country, my beer :) no drinking under 18 lol and pilau with the garam masala spice is kenyan all day! WHAT! i need to get off here, get my british tea time in and go eat xx
neeneneema 10 months ago
@neeneneema BLUE BAND!!!!!! AYYYEEEEE omg so sweeeeeeeeet forget all that "i can't believe it's not butter" stuff LOL
spicyeve 10 months ago
@spicyeve u kno wat im sayin! p.s. i got luv for all my bi/tri-cultural brothas and sistas... we need a support group lol
neeneneema 10 months ago
Love the video!!!
julieangel09 10 months ago
@julieangel09 thanks!!!!!
spicyeve 10 months ago
i looooved the songs that you were dancing to...i wish you could have told us what are the title or the artist. aksanti
futur82 10 months ago
@futur82 will do!!!
spicyeve 10 months ago
Do you have alot of Nigerian friends? lol
WomanInTheJungle 10 months ago
@WomanInTheJungle YES! sooooooo many. i actually can't do a kenyan accent because i hang out with so many nigerians. i can only do one when i go home :/ LOL
spicyeve 10 months ago
I luv Milo, hv a tubful here in college too lol. I'm Ghanaian in Canada. not 1st generation tho :) Do u know any Ghanaian ppl? I rly like ur vids. Ur too chill. Did u know dat?? hehehe laterz
Irie1992 10 months ago
My family always drinks tea with milk. Maybe I'm Kenyan too!!! (Just kidding) I am African American, but I have not found out which West-African country my ancestors came from....my cousin is working on that research now....
vonnababy2 10 months ago
can you post the title of the songs and the artist of them in the discription box? I LOVE IT!
ombchick16 10 months ago
@ombchick16 i'll do that now! thanks for the suggestion :)
spicyeve 10 months ago
BLATBLATBLAT
pinkrosesfly 10 months ago
I wanna go when you go back (=
MittBritt20 10 months ago
lol that's funny u mentioned it, because i was going to make a parody black person tag video. now it's ruined :(
matthew11and25 10 months ago
I can now update my swahili dictionary, because the only words I knew, where infact from watching the lion king too many times.
angelicbabe26 10 months ago
I like the kenyan national anthem, first heard it on the 08 summer olympics, it sounds so...idk, official i guess, lol. And aww man, so simba's name was just lion in swahilli, how lame of disney, where's the creativity??!! That kenyan music you played sounds good, much like reggae.
I don't know where my ancestors are from, but none of my great-great grandparents, great grandparents, or grandparents were directly from Africa(as in having stepped foot on african land)....
Great vlog!
MusicLova84 10 months ago
I enjoyed this vid. Long? Oh, no. You're adorable. It's sort-of hard for some black (notice the b is in lower case) Americans to associate with America. So, when you say culture for blacks in America it is a wide variety of things. We, black Americans, find other cultures very intriguing because you can say this is what "my" ppl believe and do. There is no collective belief just politics and business.
zheahra 10 months ago
I have trouble saying "rural" too! LOL
vonnababy2 10 months ago
LOL at everybody copies Black culture - my goodness too true!!!!!
QueenChezabelle 10 months ago
Lol at the Milo comment... I am Haitian and "Milo" was a staple growing up. I completely agree wih you about bein 1st generation, you always feel like you are in the middle.
anjuness 10 months ago
lol this guy who use to be my pal always talked about Milo. He was from Kenya too
lasoreal 10 months ago
Hujambo bibi! Great friday vlog! :D Entertaining and informative as always! Siku njema!
dwanidog 10 months ago