Kyle Gordon - Mr. Jambo (feat. Barry Bergen) [Official Music Video]

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  @EmpiricalCubeJuly 17, 2026

  In an interview in the 90s, "Mr. Jambo", a retired English teacher from Johannesburg, said, "I simply did not want to talk to him. He seemed like a frivolous man."

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  @rundyftwJuly 17, 2026

  As a white guy living in an air conditioned house in America, this really makes me feel like I’m connecting with my roots.

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  @hikingviking5069July 17, 2026

  Fun fact: Kyle didn’t make the instrumentals and background vocals for this song, they inexplicably just start playing as soon as you enter Africas air space!

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  @zahrahkhalid6333July 17, 2026

  this album ended apartheid

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  @HandgrenadessJuly 17, 2026

  This song really helps us whites understand the beauty that is the Country of Africa.

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  @MTGrassiJuly 17, 2026

  I love the implication that Barry Bergen went up to this guy, asked him what his name was, and when he replied, “Jambo (hello),” Barry said, “His name is Mr. Jambo.”

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  @SirthatguyJuly 17, 2026

  He did it. He saved Africa. Kyle is invited to the cookout.

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  @precisionsniper2012July 17, 2026

  If you don't speak Zulu, Mr. Jambo is saying "I don't speak english, do you have a translator? Stop yelling."

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  @ksamuel9July 18, 2026

  What's even funnier is he's calling him Mr. Jambo (which is the swahili word for Hello) all the while he is speaking Zulu. It's like calling an old russian guy Mr. Bonjour

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  @Diana-bi7cnJuly 17, 2026

  I still can't get over the fact that Mr. Jambo is reading an English newspaper while telling Kyle, that he doesn't speak English. 😂

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  @youngjuahnJuly 18, 2026

  I know it's the whole point of the song, but the idea of this white man just willfully deciding that a stranger's words are actually some kind of sacred wisdom while it's just him telling him to go away is endlessly entertaining.

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  @PopcornMawshmawwowJuly 17, 2026

  hilarious how the song obsesses over the ancient wisdom hidden in the scrolls, when most african cultures and tribes often have more oral and visual than written history

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  @kylegordonisgreat8611July 17, 2026

  What is Mr. Jambo saying?

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  @KingDetraktosJuly 18, 2026

  The best part of this is that Kyle went to Africa to film this, whereas Toto not only didn’t for their hit song “Africa”, but none of the band members had ever even been to the continent of Africa a single time in their lives, and their perception of it was solely based on their imagination and some clips from a documentary LOL

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  @MrOneofthousands1994July 17, 2026

  Kyle may have just set a new record for highest production value in a parody music video.

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  @MrCriticfromhellJuly 18, 2026

  The ancient scrolls are my favorite thing from Africa. I can't wait to go to the British national museum and see them someday ❤

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  @punderlordJuly 19, 2026

  No oddly specific musical microgenre is safe from this man

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  @DavidDayTravelsJuly 19, 2026

  In a 1991 interview, Paul Simon said passing on this song was his biggest career regret.

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  @sirisaacnewtunesJuly 18, 2026

  I love that Mr. Jambo doesn’t need things like “money” or “possessions” to be happy. We could all learn a thing or two from him.

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  @arieljohns4966July 19, 2026

  It's funny, because there are no bears in Africa. In fact, when his publisher told the author of Paddington this that's exactly why he changed Paddington's home from "darkest Africa" to "darkest Peru"

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