Nairobi, May 14 -- The play begins, as so many tragedies do, with love. Two young people - David Mabula, a Sukuma by tribe, and Vanessa Siti, a Nyamwezi - fall in love and want a future together. What stands between them are their fathers, two men of God who have built entire careers preaching unity in public while perfecting the art of ethnic hatred in private.

Their fate is among the key subplots in 'Bloody Bonds' that will be staged at the Africa Inland Church (AIC) Milimani in Nairobi today (Friday, May 15) from 6pm. The play, scripted by Mark Munyao and directed by Eustace Muli, follows last year's highly acclaimed staging of 'She Said No'.

'Bloody Bonds' interrogates the violence concealed within bloodlines. The common proverb tha...