Kevin Onyona is a multi-award-winning Kenyan businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist dwelling within the Washington DC metropolitan space. He’s the Founder and proprietor of the favored top-rated hospitality group – Swahili Village, which he based greater than 20 years in the past.
Kevin, alongside his spouse, based the Swahili Village Group and has progressively utilized the group to create an genuine, seamless, and rewarding connection between the African tradition and the remainder of the world.
“The African tradition may be very misinterpreted globally and it’s time we stood up and displayed the authenticity of our originality in tradition, meals, arts, advert music,” he stated.
Kevin has actioned the above ideas by way of 5 top-class African eateries often called Swahili Village eating places. The primary restaurant, positioned within the State of Maryland, grew to become a gathering spot for Africans away from their motherland, to really feel at house with the finely ready meals and drinks.
Ten years after establishing the Maryland department of his restaurant chain and receiving quite a few nationwide and worldwide awards, Kevin started increasing his hospitality enterprise according to his unique mission of overtaking all the United States of America.
The Swahili Village DC, often called The Consulate, positions itself because the main African restaurant and social and cultural occasion heart that fosters U.S-African engagement.
“We thought it was necessary to take a possibility to actually have fun our place right here in DC and remind everybody that we’ve large plans as we transfer ahead in our mission to convey individuals collectively by way of meals, tradition, artwork, and enlightened conversations” he defined.
In the present day, the Swahili Village Group stands outstandingly as a fusion of world-class fantastic eating, cultural occasions, philanthropic initiatives, and an entrepreneurship heart providing worth regionally and internationally.
Kevin’s 5 eating places lengthen throughout Beltsville in Maryland, Northwest within the District of Colombia, Newark in New Jersey, Tyson’s Nook in Virginia, and Manhattan in New York.
The Swahili Village restaurant in Maryland is Kevin’s oldest restaurant, serving the cities of Beltsville, Faculty Park, Laurel, Colombia, and Baltimore.
