David Munyua and Peter Wachiuri interview: 'We wish for major PDC players to come and visit Kenya'

David Munyua speaks with conviction when he explains what the man sat alongside him means to him. "We're brothers."

Munyua made history in December as the first player from Kenya ever to win a match at the World Darts Championship.

He came from 2-0 down in sets to defeat 2024 Grand Prix winner Mike De Decker 3-2, and in the process created an instantly iconic Alexandra Palace moment.

The 30-year-old had only picked up a dart for the first time in 2022 and, alongside his darts career, is a full-time veterinarian.

He'd also never been outside of Kenya before making his way to London.

There was a special moment as Munyua completed his first Ally Pally walk-on, as he was given his darts case by a member of the crowd on the front row.

That member of the crowd was Munyua's Kenyan darts rival and long-time friend, Peter Wachiuri.

Wachiuri accompanied his fellow Kenyan to London, and they stayed in an Airbnb ahead of the first round match.

A darts fan, who had known the pair's manager for 15 years, and his daughter met Munyua and Wachiuri before the match, and watched the match from the family section. The fan described them both on Reddit as 'thoroughly welcoming and nice'.

"Yesterday morning, I had a cuppa with David Munyua," he wrote on the day after the match. "By mid-afternoon, he was the most famous man in Kenya."

What has it like being 'the most famous man in Kenya'?

"Yeah, it's been amazing. Everything has changed now," Munyua tells SPORTbible ahead of MODUS Super Series' International Pairs Week, which is broadcast exclusively on Pluto TV.

"Since we came back from the PDC, we focus on the darts as a sport [in Kenya].

"More people have turned out - there are so many of them who are now training and playing darts wherever I go. I think very soon, we will be having a lot of players from Kenya.

"I've been quite busy, moving up and down. There have been so many messages about our achievement, even going to Stamford Bridge [Munyua is a fan of Chelsea].

"It's beautiful to go through them all [the messages]. Everything is positive, and we are happy about that."

Wachiuri adds: "The sport is getting very, very much bigger. Whenever you go and meet any player, even if you don't know that player, you know they're doing great.

"You have to be very keen and very focused [when you're playing], for sure."

Munyua even received a congratulatory message from Kenyan President William Ruto, who told him that 'the nation stands behind you'.

The 30-year-old hopes that his performances can led to even more support from the country's government.

"Before, darts in Kenya has not been so popular," he said. "But now, everybody was aware of what we did, and what we are doing.

"So when we came back, there was a lot of fun and appreciation in person.

"Now, even our government recognises more, and is more interested, in the sport.

"Maybe very soon we'll be having more support from the government than before."

The reason Munyua makes that point in particular is something that many darts players outside of the UK and Europe will know all about - the amount of money it costs to travel to events, to increase the quality of venues, and for players to be able to represent their country on world-class stages.

It is why the PDC's recent announcement, that Africa has been given an additional qualification spot for next year's World Championship, is so important, as it gives the continent even more of an opportunity to showcase its top talent on the world stage.

"We will focus to make sure we increase these slots, because we have good players," Wachiuri explains.

"Also, we're still looking for support, because here in Africa it's very expensive. We need support to be able to access the venue, transport, all of that.

"We hope we will get to a point where we have good support from the PDC itself, the government, so that our players are are able to maybe have a consistent performance, a proper performance, that can be shown on TV or in world-class venues."

Munyua and Wachiuri also represented Team Kenya in the World Cup of Darts qualifier, held in Nairobi on March 22, though the pair ultimately did not qualify for the event.

Much like the World Championship, Africa has been given a second qualification slot for that tournament, with South Africa taking one of the spots.

That qualifier was ran by the African Darts Group (ADG) - an organisation founded by South African darts star Devon Petersen to increase opportunities for players in the continent.

"He has done a great job," Wachiuri says. "He is the one who brought the World Cup qualifier to Kenya.

"What he has done is commendable. We are happy about him, and we are supporting what he's doing in our country."

Whilst much of the attention has been on Munyua in recent months, it is Wachiuri who became the first Kenyan darts star to rise to prominence outside of Africa.

He was invited to play on the MODUS Super Series for the first time in February 2025, and quickly became a cult hero among darts fans by reaching the final of the competition.

On the way, he defeated former PDC tour card holders Colin Osborne and Kevin Burness, and 2018 PDC World Championship semi-finalist Jamie Lewis, before losing to Scott Campbell in the final.

He was then met with a hero's welcome once he arrived back in Nairobi - something he had no idea would happen.

"I really enjoyed it because I didn't believe that I can just manage to get into the finals," he says.

"But I was very glad to have that opportunity, and I tried to do my best. I came to achieve something.

"I'm willing to be the best. I was having a great time, because even I didn't think they were planning to come and visit me at the airport!

"It was a surprise, because I didn't know they were coming to me. They were grateful for my achievement for the first time."

Munyua predicts that Kenya will be 'one of the great countries in Africa' for darts, and thinks that Kenyan players can 'change the game' over the next five years.

"I'm sure Kenya is going to be the first country to have these major players come and visit, and participate," he adds.

"We'll be having a good number of players playing well.

"We have the iconic players that they can really look up to. We wish by this time, five years to come, we can be able to invite them to come and participate with us.

"Then we can be able to maybe have a good level of darts, and also a structure that's going to improve the sports in our country."

International Pairs 3 will stream live and exclusively on Pluto TV's MODUS Super Series Darts channel between 20-25 April 2026. For more information on the channel, visit Pluto TV's website.