manageable city has become a vast metropolis right my first stop was at the downtown arts complex run by joy boyer she's a woman of many talents actor singer architect and defender of nairobi's heritage. now in the one nine hundred seventy s. kenya was a defacto one party state few dead question president joe miller kenyatta. today it's a multi-party democracy so i wanted joy to tell me if nairobi's artists now have more freedom of expression since our sort of multi-party elections and particularly two thousand and two we in the cultural sector began to notice a shift we saw a younger generation sort of pick up the baton so to speak from previous artists and be bolder in terms of the themes that they were tackling with with music and with the spoken word we saw a new art forms emerging contemporary dance you know sort of sprang into the scene and then of course now with this sort of digital age we're seeing a lot more younger people picking up cameras and and expressing and sharing through through those media as well so yes so definitely a much a much more exciting space i know that sort of fiftee