illegal guns and the fear of Kenya

Struggling with a surge in violent crime, Kenya is the stage of BBC Africa Eye's documentary, where the focus is on a reformed criminal urging others to surrender their illegal firearms, one by one. In a somber confession, a young man admits his darkest deed was murder, carried out while under the influence of drugs, a crime he equated to swatting a fly. The protagonist, Samuel, not his actual name, meets with King Kafu, a former convict turned advocate against crime, in Kisumu, a city near Lake Victoria in Kenya's west,…