One Saturday in late July, I attended a show called Story Sosa, at the National Museum in Nairobi. Billed as ‘an experiment in live storytelling’, the event consisted of five stories with themes including the racial construction of artificial intelligence, the dynamics of lynchings in Kenya and the significance of everyday objects. They explored what women’s hairstyles can tell us about Kenya’s post-colonial history, and offered a fascinating glimpse into the Asian experience in East Africa through the eyes of three generations of a family folding and frying samosas.
Each story had been researched and written like a traditional print magazine story. The authors were Kenyans already distinguished on the international stage as journalists, artists, writers, poets and performers. They presented them to us through a captivating and entertaining mix of recitation, video, animations, and music. It not only felt
