William Ruto<\/a> welcomed him to the East African nation via a viral video on TikTok.<\/p>\n“Jambo, IShowSpeed. Welcome to Kenya, karibu Kenya. Kenya is not just another country, Kenya is a pulse, a feeling, Kenya is home,” President Ruto said.<\/p>\n
IShowSpeed, alias Speed, livestreamed his public procession in the heart of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, with dozens of youth in tow.<\/p>\n
A visit to the city’s national park, a tour of a major market, a helicopter ride over Nairobi, and an experience of Kenya’s vibrant public transport culture marked the YouTuber’s colourful trip to the often energetic country.<\/p>\n
IShowSpeed is in Africa for a 28-day tour of the continent, beginning December 29.<\/p>\n
His Kenyan trip set new standards, including gaining more than 360,000 new followers from YouTube livestream of his activities in the country.<\/p>\n
The new followers ensured that he crossed the 48-million YouTube subscriber mark.<\/p>\n
At the same time, more than 200,000 people were actively following his minute-by-minute livestream.<\/p>\n
Acknowledging Kenya’s immense show of support, IShowSpeed said during his livestream: “I love you all so much. Kenya, we will never forget you.”<\/p>\n
But who exactly is IShowSpeed?<\/p>\n
He has one of the most-followed YouTube channels globally, with over 48 million followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old American internet sensation, IShowSpeed, has taken Africa by storm following his recent tour of at least…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[80],"class_list":{"0":"post-19053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-kenya"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}