A Love Story Conquers Tribal Warby Matt Brown, Foreign Correspondent, THE NATIONAL, UAE, 29 June 2008
Otieno and Njeri are two star-crossed lovers from different tribes living in Kibera, one of Africa’s largest slums with one million people. When a disputed election triggers a wave of tribal violence that sweeps Kenya, angry mobs drive Njeri’s family from their house. Fuming, her father bans Njeri from seeing Otieno.
The play, called Kibera Kid, is a project of the Hot Sun Foundation, an organisation that develops the creative talent of youth from the slums through storytelling.They will perform the play entirely in Swahili outside on Kibera’s streets, where more people will have a chance to see it.
The team decided to focus on the post-election violence that gripped Kenya at the beginning of the year. Ben Waweru, a butcher who recently watched the dress rehearsal, said the play gets its point across.“There is a message in it,” he said. “It teaches me that different tribes can stay together. We have to be one nation, one people.”
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