Starring both seasoned and debutant actors in the cast; Helena Waithera, Mike Njeru, veteran actor Raymond Ofula and Qwachezz Kwach, ‘1988’ is a simulation of the late 80’s Kenyan society, that was too often characterized by civil rights infractions against free speech, punctuated by wrongful detentions that too often were associated with violent torture at the infamous Nyayo Chambers.

Written by Charles Chanchori and directed by the talented Robert Asimba, 1988 mirrors the tribulations of Khoti Babu, a law student at University of Nairobi who gets on the wrong side of the law with alleged bad-mouthing of the government. Typical of numerous treasonous charges in this leg of Kenyan history, Khoti is subjected to brutal treatment and blackmailed into turning in his Marxist professors at his university in exchange for immunity and a secure government job.

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