KENYAN “VULTURES” BEWARE GRAFFITTI ART SPEAKS!

KENYAN “VULTURES” BEWARE GRAFFITTI ART SPEAKS!

They target Kenya’s political elite with a single message in mind- “Kenyan politicians are vultures, preying on the weak”.

Our people, here in Africa, say that ears that do not listen will roll into the rubbish pit with the head. They also say that such ears don’t understand the meaning of the word “medicine”.

This is especially so when the word is pronounced by the lips, which these ears would not like to hear that they have been seen eating, drinking, laughing, kissing, smiling and doing all the simple things of life that lips do.

At any rate, royal ears ought to listen, even to lips they do not like. But even if they will not listen, they must still be told.

The lips of these young men have vowed to speak via graffiti art to the royal ears, even when they know such ears are deaf. Their pain turned to anger then to activism.

Ours may be the dialogue of the deaf. For what do you do when the leadership elects tend to be hard of hearing? Despite decades of corruption, scandals implicating leaders and other injustices, not one senior Kenyan politician has been brought to justice.

The power of visual art, whether photography and now graffiti can do so much. That is why they have decided to paint walls of major buildings in Nairobi CBD with a plea to Kenyans that the power is in their vote and that there needs to be a ballot revolution.

The idea according to these talented artistes is for everyone to see it wherever they go and they burn inside with questions as to whether they are stupid and why do we still vote for these people.

That was why, when the rock would not respond to the hyena’s greetings, the poor animal said to the rock, “RESPOND YOU MAY NOT WANT TO, BUT YOU HAVE HEARD ME ALL THE SAME.”

(Additional reporting, photos and insight from THE CNN and MR BARRACK MULUKA.)