Christine Amondi sits on a gurney in a G4S ambulance and talks about why she became Kenya’s first female volunteer firefighter.

Sadu is a street-smart teenager who touts for matatu passengers but dreams of becoming a millionaire and buying a Lexus. Steve can’t come to terms with his brother Gordo’s death and doesn’t know how to relate to the dead man’s pregnant wife. Laurence walks away from a violent past but cannot escape the demons in his head.

Bob Nyanja’s The Rugged Priest has definitely ruffled feathers in Nairobi, building its own swirl of controversy as it tells the tale of one of Kenya’s most hotly debated murders.

I almost killed a man this month. I’m not proud of it but it’s true. After hours spent in line, like a heroin addict scratching holes in his skin, it was finally my turn to pull in to the Parklands Oilibya for a few drops of the good stuff. But just as I did, the attendant said something to me that nearly cost him his life: “Fuel is finished.”.