Watched an Alex Mwakideu interview the other day he was talking to the legendary judge from Vioja Mahakamani. Millennials, you know her ~That no-nonsense mama who took zero nonsense in that courtroom.
Now here’s the wild part they never had scripts. Not a single one. They’d just show up, pick roles, agree on the case, and go. Cameras rolling, take one, done.
So every punchline Alphonse Makacha and Dot Makokha ever dropped? Pure improvisation. No rehearsal. Nothing prepared. Just talent doing its thing in real time.
Kenya really had something special with that crew.
And here’s the part that gets me AG Amos Wako was fully behind the show. He’d supply them with real court cases and actual judgments from Kenyan courts. So when the judge passed her verdict on screen, it wasn’t made up. It was legally accurate, straight from the constitution.
Comedy on the surface. Civic education underneath.
That’s a level of craft most productions today can’t touch.
Golden era. Salute to those legends. 🫡
@RizwanHamisi “Techies are hating but applying for internships”
...same tired deflection as “Kenya is better than other countries.”
Criticism isn’t jealousy, it’s standards!
You don’t get to hype Kenyan talent then excuse mediocre products in the same breath. Pick one bana
Pia Safaricom wako na Gig huku kumbe.
Nimeona a several tweets of “Hio app si mbaya bytheway” coming from some bigwigs who had earlier condemned the same app.
Koko Networks employed 700 people as staff and created thousands more indirect employment for agents who ran their 3000 refuelling machines
They closed down 3 months ago after the government refused to let them sell carbon credits. But hey, let's celebrate a 1-off thing more
AI is amazing, and getting into things like OpenClaw has opened my eyes to how much you can automate. But I’m starting to feel the downside too. At a certain point, it starts feeling like I’m outsourcing my own thinking. It’s both cool and scary.
@DiahChrissy Idea guys with zero traction offering 0.5% like it’s life-changing, then sending NDAs before even explaining the idea… brother you don’t have a startup, you have cuck level audacity 😭