The Best Kenya Trivia Questions to Test Your Friends

Good Kenya trivia is the fastest way to start an argument in the group chat. Here are a few of our favourite questions across politics, music and culture. Test your friends — answers are at the bottom.

Music & culture

• Which band made “Jambo Bwana” famous?
• Benga music is rooted in which community?
• Which Kenyan act is behind the Gengetone sound's biggest early hits?

Politics & history

• What is the name of Kenya's national assembly?
• In what year did Kenya gain independence?
• Which day marks Kenya's self-rule, celebrated on 1 June?

Everyday Kenya

• What's the common name for a shared minibus taxi?
• “Harambee” translates roughly to what?
• Which leafy green shares its name with the phrase “to push the week”?

The answers

Them Mushrooms; the Luo community; Madaraka Day (1 June); Bunge; 1963; the matatu; “pulling together” / community self-help; sukuma wiki. How many did you get?

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