The Team: Kenya - Unfriendly
Someone has been skimming from the players' allowance in this episode of The Team. Assuming the worst, the players goes on strike only to discover later that the team's accountant is the culprit.
The players discover that someone has been skimming from their team allowances. Instead of calmly discussing the situation with the coaches, they assume the worst and go on strike. However, the coach turns the tables on them when, after he discovers the culprit is the accountant, he has the accountant arrested. For his part, the accountant reacts arrogantly claiming his ‘cut’ is okay -- Bukenya is his cousin. To the relief and surprise of everyone, Bukenya disavows his sleazy relative.
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ABOUT THE TEAM
The Team is a dramatic TV series which was created in response to the devastating violence in Kenya following the 2007 general elections. The series dramatizes how the newly recruited members of the co-ed 'Imani' soccer/football club learn to overcome their tribal, ethnic, social and economic differences. The Team was created by Search for Common Ground and Media Focus on Africa Foundation in Kenya.
This series is a metaphor of Kenyan society. Imani FC ('faith' in Swahili) members and the Coach have been brought together from many of Kenya's tribal groups to play together on a co-ed league. The league has been formed and financed by a group of wealthy international philanthropists and businessmen who believe sport will be a way to neutralize the ethnic hatred that shook Kenya after the last elections.
The characters are from broken families, even as Kenya is a broken country. In that way, the team becomes a surrogate family for our players. They each want a 'family' but no one knows how to reach out and get it. Each of the players, and the Coach, struggles to overcome ethnic hatred that sparked violent confrontations after the elections. The purpose of the series is to show that it is possible for people to overcome their differences and that co-existence is possible.
