Urban Youth Folklore Genres: Mchongoano

For some time now urban Kenyan youth have been engaged in Mchongoano fetes. The urban youth use Mchongoano as a form of communication though it is also used in the rural areas. Besides the youth, it is exhibited on television, FM radio stations and even online. This study sought to capture Mchongoano in its context and critically analyse it for its content and style of performance. The study?s quest is to arrive at deeper meanings of Mchongoano by undertaking a stylistic analysis of the linguistic choices, content and context of Mchongoano utterances among Kenyan urban youth.