Uvuvwevwevwe is the first name of a man identifying himself as Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenyevwe Ugwemuhwem Osas in a Kenyan sketch comedy video. Online, the video has often been referred to as “The Hardest Name In Africa.”
On November 24th, 2016, the Kenyans.co.ke Facebook page uploaded a video titled “This Man Has The Hardest Name In Africa,” in which a man identifies himself as “Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenyevwe Ugwemuhwem Osas” while being interviewed on camera (shown below). Over the next several months, the video accumulated upwards of 33 million views, 554,000 shares and 210,000 comments.
