KUDISHNYAO! by Just A Band * Nairobi's first Open Air street Techno Party!
A new star has been born, a new generation has stand up! The hottest band of urban hip Nairobi stages an open air evening concert right in the heart of the mean streets of Central Nairobi, a place not advisable to walk after 8 pm.
'KUDISHNYAO!'Describes the onomatopoetic sound used by kids – when playing games like police and robbers, or any game requiring weaponry – to denote a gunshot (the less palatable “Dinyao!” stands for a gun with a silencer).
And it describes the current generation of young Nairobians too. A generation which tries to make something positive out of their lives and their country, though scarred, filled up and fed up by the failures and corruption inflicted on them of the former and current generations in power.
Just A Band is not just a band. It stands for a new generation of Kenyans. And I hope that this generation will make it. Will make it to get rid of the spell put on Kenya, which the former generations failed to do. Look in the faces of this generation, see their ambition, see their hope.
And all after all, it was a nice party.
Photographed @ Loita Street Nairobi, Kenya, 2-4-2011