Bring it on! Fans of 2024 Chan co-hosts Kenya, Tanzania exchange endless jibes
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Kenyan fans cheer their team during the 2024 African Nations Championship Group 'A' match against Morocco at Moi Internationals Sports Centre, Kasarani in Nairobi on August 10, 2025.
In a clip that went viral online, some Tanzanians could be heard describing Kenya’s playing style as “horrible”.
Kenyans on their part have mocked Tanzanians for the low attendance at Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam.
On these pages in July 2006, renowned cartoonist Gado illustrated a perplexing phenomenon that defines relations between East Africans – the only thing that Kenyans, Tanzanians, and Ugandans agree on is that they cannot agree on anything.
Gado satirized that puzzling characteristic of East African unity with a caricature that featured three briefcase-holding men – a Kenyan, a Tanzanian, and a Ugandan – giving each other advice on what each needed to do to create more harmony between the three parties.
