Film & Stage
Landmark
The cast of Vioja Mahakamani
on air over 35 years
Kenya's longest-running comedy, watched across East Africa
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Why they are here
A courtroom comedy that ran for more than thirty-five years and was watched not only in Kenya but across Uganda, Tanzania and Zanzibar — the golden age of Kenyan comedy in one programme.
Vioja Mahakamani is a Kenyan comedy series and one of the country's most popular television programmes, broadcast for over thirty-five years.
Its household names included Hiram Muigai as Ondiek Nyuka Kwota, Mathias Keya as Makokha, Lucy Wangui as the Judge and Peter Sankale as Olexander Josphat. In the 1980s and 1990s its audience extended well beyond Kenya, into Uganda, Tanzania and Zanzibar.
Its household names included Hiram Muigai as Ondiek Nyuka Kwota, Mathias Keya as Makokha, Lucy Wangui as the Judge and Peter Sankale as Olexander Josphat. In the 1980s and 1990s its audience extended well beyond Kenya, into Uganda, Tanzania and Zanzibar.
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