Maina Ndegwa: Student tickling Kenyans with hilarious memes of key figures

Stephen Maina Ndegwa.

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When Stephen Maina Ndegwa generated a meme thread, he did not anticipate to gain a massive following on Facebook in just one day. A meme, pronounced meem, is a humorous?image, video, piece of text, or a combination of any two that is easily copied and shared widely by internet users. He had 16 followers on Facebook in 2018, but in just two hours after he shared the meme, the number had hit 2,500. Ndegwa, who studied at Kagumo High School, says his art is apolitical and he did not know what to do to reach a wide audience. He is currently a journalism and mass communications student at Technical University of Mombasa. Ndegwa tried amateur filming when he joined university, using a phone, writing scripts with friends and acting. Later, he unsuccessfully tried to go into radio.