Deconstructing ‘Wee Kamu’: Why it could only have been created in 2003
Nonini [Photo:Instagram/noninimgengetrue]
When ‘Wee Kamu’ by Nonini (Herbert Nakitari) came out in the year 2003, it caused a shock in the cultural system of a country still caught up in the euphoria of the 2002 General Election that had seen KANU’s four-decade reign come to a close, with the reins of power handed to the Rainbow Coalition.
Eighteen years have not softened the hard-hitting nature of ‘Wee Kammu …’ The protagonist of the song, a naughty young Nonini sitting on the stairwell of his digs (in his California hood, Eastlands, not the United States of America) is addressing a young lady whom he has convinced to ‘kamu kwa keja’ (come to his crib) to accompany him to the shower.