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CPOY 70 International Picture Story Award of Excellence: Nairobi Kijana

"In the generation before ours, a 23-years old guy like me would be married and about to have kids. Now we just party and have fun," says Sam. Many young people in Kenya experience a large confrontation with western cultures and lifestyles. This is a story about a group of boys in their twenties, who have formed a lifestyle very different from the generation before them. A lifestyle they describe as inspired by the western way of "living as you please". As much as they want to be a part of the globalized youth, the more they have to accept letting go of the more original East African cultures. This leaves our main character, Sammy Ngune, and his friends in a cultural cleft longing for the same as young people all over the world: to find their identity.

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March 13, 2015
Sam and Vincent have travelled 6 hours out of Nairobi to a town called Eldoret, where some danes invited them out. They rented a hotel room where they are warming up for the party, watching premier league football.
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