‘We’re healing this common body we call a nation’: the plays assessing Kenya’s present by retelling its past
The series of shows draws on threads of Kenyan history, tackling disenfranchisement, colonialism and oppression while inspiring the country’s young people to participate in its future
On a recent Saturday night at an auditorium in Nairobi, a rapt audience of more than 600 people held their breath as the revered Kenyan statesman and independence activist Tom Mboya walked out of a pharmacy with his friend Mohini Sehmi.
Gunshots rang out. “Did you hear that?” a panicked Sehmi asked Mboya, who slowly collapsed to the ground. “Tom! Tom! Tom!” she called frantically, realising that he had been hit.
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