We sit down with Ngartia—writer, performer, and co-founder of Too Early For Birds—to revisit the life, assassination, and evolving legacy of Tom Mboya through the lens of theatre.
This episode, while vital, rendered itself a bit unfocused. I get the sense that a conversation centered around theatre as resistance (pulling from our textured history 🇰🇪 and the precarity of our political present) would have led to a more...layered dialogue. In as much as Too Early For Birds’ contribution to disseminating the Mboya narrative remains an unforgettable offering, there’s more that Ngartia could have been allowed room to share regarding his thespian endeavors re:process and what thematic concerns plague him.
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This episode, while vital, rendered itself a bit unfocused. I get the sense that a conversation centered around theatre as resistance (pulling from our textured history 🇰🇪 and the precarity of our political present) would have led to a more...layered dialogue. In as much as Too Early For Birds’ contribution to disseminating the Mboya narrative remains an unforgettable offering, there’s more that Ngartia could have been allowed room to share regarding his thespian endeavors re:process and what thematic concerns plague him.