Nairobi, Aug. 2 -- "Had I had the same success as an entrepreneur in France as I had in Kenya, I'd be a millionaire." Marie Lora -Mungai confesses as she reflects on the one-time popular Kenyan TV show, The XYZ, that defined Kenyan television but never made her rich.

When the creative entrepreneur and author of Creative Cash Flow teamed up with legendary Tanzanian-born political cartoonist Gado (Geoffrey Mwampembwa) to create the satirical political series The XYZ Show, they had little idea it would become one of the country's most iconic television productions.

That was in 2009, when the duo co-founded Buni Media in Nairobi and launched the show. Although the show ran for 14 seasons on NTV, reaching an audience of 10 million viewers an...