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COMMENTS: Kenyan Thespian
ABC is expanding its newshole each Monday in April, allowing it to make room for its 21 and the World is Yours feature, a profile of global twentysomethings. Jim Sciutto introduced us to Mwai Ngugi, a peasant farmer in the mornings and a thespian in the Nakura Players Theater Group in the afternoons. Life expectancy in Kenya is 46 years, so at 21 Ngugi is already middle-aged. His troupe visits slums to dramatize the dangers of alcohol, drugs and HIV/AIDS. His house has no running water or gas cooking, its toilet is an outhouse yet he belongs to Kenya's middle class and his family is living proof: among his six siblings, the actor counts a schoolteacher, an accountant, an electrician and an IT specialist.
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