Former Kenya 7s self taught chef Dennis Ombachi scoops Africa’s top creator award

Former Shujaa 7s ace Dennis Ombachi has bagged a continental title to his name after being crowned the Top Creator in the 2022 Sub-Saharan Africa Awards by worldwide social media app TikTok.

The awards were held at the Mövenpick Hotel and Residences Nairobi in Kenya, where the platform recognized and awarded content creators across Sub-Saharan Africa for their talent and creativity.

Ombachi, popularly known as The Roaming Chef on social media, scooped the title courtesy of his adventurous culinary skills that have wowed all and sundry in the social sphere including multiple Grammy Award winning American singer Kelly Rowland who is among the latest celebrities to follow him.

“Humbled to have been named Africa’s inaugural TikTok Top Creator for 2022 and I would love to take this opportunity to thank you all for the love and support you have always accorded my journey. This is for Kenya,” the self-taught chef posted.

The awards were determined through a highly competitive eight-day-long public voting process on the app across Southern, West, and East Africa.

The ceremony was attended by the media community and fellow creators across Sub-Saharan Africa, and the award recipients were presented with the Top Creator 2022 TikTok trophy.

Boniswa Sidwaba, TikTok’s head of content programming in Sub-Saharan Africa, stated that the award ceremony is TikTok’s way of recognizing storytellers, creativity, and the positive impact all creators bring to the TikTok community.

“We are thrilled to be celebrating our creators who have been a driving force behind some of the exciting trends for 2022. With these inaugural awards, TikTok aims to give creators in Sub-Saharan Africa the recognition they deserve and to encourage them to tell the African story while spreading joy at all times,” Boniswa said.

Ombachi, who is best remembered in a Shujaa jersey for his brilliant sol run against Zimbabwe in 2015 that helped Kenya to its first ever Olympics appearance at the Rio 2016 Games, has grown in leaps and bounds with his eye-catching videos and simple to follow food recipes that have his idiosyncratic catchpprhase ‘done’.