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If I Were President for a Day…

The Team — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:51:46 +0000

We stopped by the Blankets and Wine Festival the other day and asked the people we met there what they would do if they were president for a day. Check out the surprising and mildly depressing result in the video below:

What Does A Perfect Kenya Look Like?

The Team — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:08:35 +0000

Here’s an idea for what a perfect future Kenya look like – action figures of local policemen for the kids? Roads so smooth with self-filling potholes? What do you think, what does your perfect Kenya look like? Let us know!

If This Country Burns, We Burn With It.

The Team — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:45:18 +0000

Here’s a short message from the Kuweni Serious Team.

Featuring a random sampling of Kenyans. Directed by Mbithi Masya and Jim Chuchu for Kuweni Serious. Edited by Mbithi Masya. Narration by Bill Sellanga, words and music by Jim Chuchu.

There is a difference between the one who rents a house, and the one who owns a house. The one who rents a house doesn’t care if the walls crack and crumble, they can always move to another house.

The one who owns a house knows that no one else will take care of it, thus they paint the walls and mend the cracks.
More than 60% of Kenya’s population consists of young men and women like us.

The problem is that we behave like tenants of Kenya. We have let the older generation tear this country apart. We have let them use us to fight their battles. We have let them loot this country. We have let them fool us into thinking that we’re not fit to run this country ourselves.

So we hide in our alcohol, in our religions and on the Internet as if there is some other Kenya out there that we shall move to when this one crumbles. We sit at home and wait for others to fight for us on the streets.

We want green cards instead of voter’s cards. We are angry, but we are too scared to do anything about it. It is not Obama’s job to save this country. It is not the donors’ job, and the government has shown that it is not their job, either. Responsibility is not shared, it is earned.

Freedom is not given, it is taken. When we decide we want freedom, we will have to get it ourselves.

Because if this country burns, we burn with it.

Save Yourself. Vote.

The Team — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:58:02 +0000

An angry hawker demands help from the government – with some unexpected results.

Wacheni Mpango wa Kando!

The Team — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:47:24 +0000

Here’s Issue 5 of “Soma Hiyo Something” – concerning the Conduct of State Officers. For the longest time, it’s been very easy to be a civil servant who runs a business that supplies the Government at exorbitant prices – because you’re the one who approves the tenders yourself.

It’s also very easy to have a whole other day job while still in the pay of the Government – meaning you only turn up for work on pay day. Chapter Six of the Draft Constitution (Articles 75 – 78, specifically) deal with this and other aspects of leadership and integrity. Someone in our comic isn’t too happy to hear that.

Black, Red and Brown?

The Team — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:33:39 +0000

Here’s Issue 4 of our “Soma Hiyo Something” comics: Forest Cover – with our current less than 2% tree cover, we might as well get rid of the green stripe in the flag…

Consumer Rights for “Soma Hiyo Something”!

The Team — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:24:06 +0000

Here’s Issue 3 of our “Soma Hiyo Something” comics: Consumer Rights – for everyone who wonders whether phone-tariffs all cost the same, and whether there’s any herbs in herbal toothpaste.

“The Underwear Rule”

The Team — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:48:12 +0000

Here’s Issue Two of “Soma Hiyo Something” comics: Emergency Medical Care. This is the reason your mother tells you to wear clean, presentable underwear at ALL times. You never know where you might end up.

The Draft Constitution has a simple remedy for that situation.

Someni Hiyo Kitu!

The Team — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:07:22 +0000

Check out Issue One from our “Soma Hiyo Something” series – Freedom of Expression.

It’s part of a mini-campaign we’re running here at Kuweni Serious to get our generation to actually read the Draft Constitution rather than let people tell them what’s in there, or listen to all the propaganda from the various teams.

Usinibore!

The Team — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:11:52 +0000

Music promo for “Usinibore”, from Just A Band‘s second album – 82. The song touches on aspects of Kenyan youth culture, and the helplessness that sometimes accompanies it.