“LOOK at me! People! Do you not know that AIDS kills? You are the culprits!” cries a young Sunday-school boy dressed as a grave- digger. He is teaching his elders about safe sex. He can’t be more than 11, and his antics would be shocking in a cosy British Sunday school. But this is Africa, where AIDS is devastating communities and silence is the biggest enemy.
Uranga is a village near Lake Victoria in Kenya. It is also the home village of George Odera Outa, professor of literature and dramatic arts at the University of Nairobi. Odera Outa uses traditional…
