LAKE VICTORIA BASIN FILM MAKERS GUILD (KENYA) – KISUMU
A NEW FILM PRODUCTION.
SIMBI NYAIMA “ABUOR FILM PRODUCTION.
the Lake Victoria Basin Film Makers Guild (Kenya) is an umbrella body of film makers (script writers, artistes, designers, directors and producers based in the western Kenya region. the movement was founded to reduce artists exploitation by film makers, to patent works of local artistes to promote quality film making through good scripting and acting.
the western Kenya region is god endowed with unique sceneries and heritages, monuments like thim lich ohinga, kit mikayi, uyoma peninsula ,winam gulf, mfangano islands etc. these unique sceneries make film making memorable. Film scholar’s state “that film exists as an economic and cultural good”. we film makers based in the region intend to that, film making will create job opportunities in the region and therefore create a forum for professional acting ( training of acting skills.
Film is a unique work and in its uniqueness brings pleasure and people together by creating space for fun and escapism for people and a medium for enjoyable learning, it mirrors people lifestyles as they watch the screen the laugh at their follies and make the necessary adjustments vis-vis the character on the screen.
In the recent past,film makers based in the region want to be at the centre of film making through quality scripting and acting. We must tell our stories and our stories must be heard.We have develop a new film script based on the Luo mythology titled SIMBI NYAIMA- ABUOR by Otumba Ouko of Maseno University.
SIMBI NYAIM ABUOR film production will feature Kenya international film stars namely Olita Joseph and Oliver Litondo. They will pray major roles ,other artistes who will feature in the same films are Philip osula, Kennedy kibet. the film auditions will beheld on 15 April 2011at the Kisumu Area Library – the auditions start as from 10.00am- 5pm. On the 20th April, 2011 the Film Guild will host a simbi nyaima abuor film press conference at 3pm at the same venue-guest speakers will also include olita Joseph and Oliver Litondo’The film to be directed by Akech Obat Masira (he is also the chairman to the Lake Victoria Basin Film Makers Guild (Kenya)
We appeal to well wishers- corporate society to support film making outside Nairobi. Film making must take rest in western Kenya.
The organization in 2010 organized a successful western Kenya regional film/theatre awards. The organization in collaboration with the American Embassy has coordinated international film festival (Kisumu Library) and international film festival (Silver Bird Cinema, Mega City in Kisumu).
Kudos to the American Embassy for donating film books to film makers in western Kenya
These books will enhances our skills in film making.
Akech Obat – Masira
Chairman. Lake Victoria Basin Film Maker’s Guild (Kenya)
Tel:+254726164954.
Email:obatmasira@yahoo.com
Sunday, August 28, 2011
TOM MBOYA: THE AFRICAN PARAGON
BY: OMAR .A. NASSAR & AKECH OBAT MASIRA
From a very humble background
A towering genius was born
To sow the seeds of nationalism
In a world shrouded in ideological war
That threatened our universe with instability.
Tom Mboya:The African paragon
Tom Mboya was a personality alive
Who created a living moment
In his time and social milieu
With a legacy that transcends time
A politician, statesman, poet and musician,
Tom Mboya was a born intellectual
Who mingled with the small and the mighty
To excell as a towering Trade unionist.
As a parliamentarian and in public life,
He was a paragon of efficiency and civility
Whose aura spoke so miraculously
And so compellingly to those around him
That masses were drawn to himself
Live moths to an electric bulb.
Tom Mboya:The African paragon
Tom Mboya was an African socialist
Who cherished and gave value
To the institution of the extended family
Ever present as the “good Samaritan”
And dreaming of the African well-being:
And struggling to realize his goal-
Tom Mboya was a prodigy
And because of his magnetism
People always congregated around him
Like stars orbiting the sun-
A colossus who never stayed away
From the nests of problems
Around him that required fixing
Because he wasn’t a pretender-
Tom Mboya:The African paragon
A larger – than – life figure
Tom Mboya stood, a stalwart
Above every general mediocrity
A sublime pillar in his deeds
And lofty in his thoughts:
A committed son of the soil-
The son of Ndiege’s integrity
Was his standard of rectitude:
He respected his own virtue
And he was always himself-
Tom Mboya was above tribalism
And petty prejudices; a man
With a reputation for liberality
Who regarded the nation as an organism
Tom Mboya pioneered education
And helped airlift thousands
To the USA for further education
To create a nation intellectual base-
Barrack Obama SNR was one of them
Beside Prof. Wangari Maathai.
And many others of academic repute
Barrack Obama JNR is USA President
Thanks to Tom Mboya’s magnanimity
To give education due prominence.
Tom Mboya:The African paragon
For Tom Mboya believed
In self – cultivation and self- authentication
Constructed within a value framework
A diplomatic African with discipline
Of cardinal virtues
Synergetic, care-free and self – assured
Tom Mboya did not envisage
A nation sank in barbarism and
Rendered stagnant as if by nature’s decree
Neither moving forward or backward
Tipped into the dustbin of social history
And bedeviled instability and poverty
Tom Mboya:The African paragon
He had the key to people’s hearts
And he knew the mainspring
Of his own motive for power:
To uplift the lives of the rabble-
Tom Mboya believed firmly that
Sociability and social practice
Were the sine qua non
Of being truly a whole human
That all committed Africans
Must shed off the dependency syndrome
And strive hard to control
Their own productive destinies
To reach the enriching ends
And to have their highest needs met,
Within the ideals of social provision
Good economics and social protection
Tom Mboya fostered integrative politics
That fertilized the African soul
And gave inspiration to many
And fertilized the politics of the day-
He believed in a culture
That generated resilience
And nurtured consciousness
That developed new insights
In moments of adversity
He was ever tranquil
While radiating assurance
And he never showed doubt
And never lost dignity
Tom Mboya:The African paragon
Self – educated he was dedicated
To the enhancement of others
Organizing the airlift to the USA
To create manpower for the nation
As a trade unionist
He fought for the workers rights
Straddling Africa and the World
To create industrial justice everywhere.
And without a hood of deception,
Tom Mboya volunteered to do good
For which he was rudely rewarded
With cruel bullets in his bossom.
At the Government road
In 1969, Tom Mboya died a hero
Whose life was cut short
By a conspiratorial madness
That robbed a Nation of an intellectual
Whose contributions shall never die
But remain flourishing in many hearts
Tom Mboya: the African Paragon
They killed wuod Ndiege
Who acknowledged that Human Rights
Are the foundation of the rule of law
And that the rule of law
Is a mandatory imperative:
That people want to live in peace;
Secure in their liberties and possessions
They killed a great MAN who believe
That people future must be made calculable
And that to attain this and be fluid,
Was necessary within the polity.
T.J you are not dead for you live in us again
They felled the love of the masses
And left thousands
Drowned in seas of heartbreak
When a nation lost its spark of reason
Because a free- thinker was no more:
An astute legislator with power of oratory.
Tom Mboya who acknowledged
That people were the engine of growth
Reacting to each other’ needs
And behaving like one organizing
Always focused and interdependent
In the satisfaction of their needs
He was not prone to isolation
But,
Always went for positive affinities
Associating with the generous
While he befriended the gregarious
President J.F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther Kings
And Madam Coretta Kings as his best friends.
Lo! Tom Mboya died a hero:
A man with deep inner vision
About the Nation’s inner secrets
Which we can only learn in dreams
As we remember Tom Mboya
With memories so alive
With every moment cherished
In hearts rekindled with new spark
Yes, Tom Mboya was consumed
By a cruel, wicked World
Eating at its own edges:
A World always not satisfied.
A World that was roaring
And filled with vile passions
And dancing to its own tune:
The tune of death and oblivion.
Tom Mboya:The African paragon
FOREVER WE REMEMBER TOM MBOYA:
THE AFRICAN PARAGON
Ends
MISANGO ARTS ENSEMBLE
Kisumu City.-– 19th August 2011
From a very humble background
A towering genius was born
To sow the seeds of nationalism
In a world shrouded in ideological war
That threatened our universe with instability.
Tom Mboya:The African paragon
Tom Mboya was a personality alive
Who created a living moment
In his time and social milieu
With a legacy that transcends time
A politician, statesman, poet and musician,
Tom Mboya was a born intellectual
Who mingled with the small and the mighty
To excell as a towering Trade unionist.
As a parliamentarian and in public life,
He was a paragon of efficiency and civility
Whose aura spoke so miraculously
And so compellingly to those around him
That masses were drawn to himself
Live moths to an electric bulb.
Tom Mboya:The African paragon
Tom Mboya was an African socialist
Who cherished and gave value
To the institution of the extended family
Ever present as the “good Samaritan”
And dreaming of the African well-being:
And struggling to realize his goal-
Tom Mboya was a prodigy
And because of his magnetism
People always congregated around him
Like stars orbiting the sun-
A colossus who never stayed away
From the nests of problems
Around him that required fixing
Because he wasn’t a pretender-
Tom Mboya:The African paragon
A larger – than – life figure
Tom Mboya stood, a stalwart
Above every general mediocrity
A sublime pillar in his deeds
And lofty in his thoughts:
A committed son of the soil-
The son of Ndiege’s integrity
Was his standard of rectitude:
He respected his own virtue
And he was always himself-
Tom Mboya was above tribalism
And petty prejudices; a man
With a reputation for liberality
Who regarded the nation as an organism
Tom Mboya pioneered education
And helped airlift thousands
To the USA for further education
To create a nation intellectual base-
Barrack Obama SNR was one of them
Beside Prof. Wangari Maathai.
And many others of academic repute
Barrack Obama JNR is USA President
Thanks to Tom Mboya’s magnanimity
To give education due prominence.
Tom Mboya:The African paragon
For Tom Mboya believed
In self – cultivation and self- authentication
Constructed within a value framework
A diplomatic African with discipline
Of cardinal virtues
Synergetic, care-free and self – assured
Tom Mboya did not envisage
A nation sank in barbarism and
Rendered stagnant as if by nature’s decree
Neither moving forward or backward
Tipped into the dustbin of social history
And bedeviled instability and poverty
Tom Mboya:The African paragon
He had the key to people’s hearts
And he knew the mainspring
Of his own motive for power:
To uplift the lives of the rabble-
Tom Mboya believed firmly that
Sociability and social practice
Were the sine qua non
Of being truly a whole human
That all committed Africans
Must shed off the dependency syndrome
And strive hard to control
Their own productive destinies
To reach the enriching ends
And to have their highest needs met,
Within the ideals of social provision
Good economics and social protection
Tom Mboya fostered integrative politics
That fertilized the African soul
And gave inspiration to many
And fertilized the politics of the day-
He believed in a culture
That generated resilience
And nurtured consciousness
That developed new insights
In moments of adversity
He was ever tranquil
While radiating assurance
And he never showed doubt
And never lost dignity
Tom Mboya:The African paragon
Self – educated he was dedicated
To the enhancement of others
Organizing the airlift to the USA
To create manpower for the nation
As a trade unionist
He fought for the workers rights
Straddling Africa and the World
To create industrial justice everywhere.
And without a hood of deception,
Tom Mboya volunteered to do good
For which he was rudely rewarded
With cruel bullets in his bossom.
At the Government road
In 1969, Tom Mboya died a hero
Whose life was cut short
By a conspiratorial madness
That robbed a Nation of an intellectual
Whose contributions shall never die
But remain flourishing in many hearts
Tom Mboya: the African Paragon
They killed wuod Ndiege
Who acknowledged that Human Rights
Are the foundation of the rule of law
And that the rule of law
Is a mandatory imperative:
That people want to live in peace;
Secure in their liberties and possessions
They killed a great MAN who believe
That people future must be made calculable
And that to attain this and be fluid,
Was necessary within the polity.
T.J you are not dead for you live in us again
They felled the love of the masses
And left thousands
Drowned in seas of heartbreak
When a nation lost its spark of reason
Because a free- thinker was no more:
An astute legislator with power of oratory.
Tom Mboya who acknowledged
That people were the engine of growth
Reacting to each other’ needs
And behaving like one organizing
Always focused and interdependent
In the satisfaction of their needs
He was not prone to isolation
But,
Always went for positive affinities
Associating with the generous
While he befriended the gregarious
President J.F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther Kings
And Madam Coretta Kings as his best friends.
Lo! Tom Mboya died a hero:
A man with deep inner vision
About the Nation’s inner secrets
Which we can only learn in dreams
As we remember Tom Mboya
With memories so alive
With every moment cherished
In hearts rekindled with new spark
Yes, Tom Mboya was consumed
By a cruel, wicked World
Eating at its own edges:
A World always not satisfied.
A World that was roaring
And filled with vile passions
And dancing to its own tune:
The tune of death and oblivion.
Tom Mboya:The African paragon
FOREVER WE REMEMBER TOM MBOYA:
THE AFRICAN PARAGON
Ends
MISANGO ARTS ENSEMBLE
Kisumu City.-– 19th August 2011
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