I come from Machakos County, where we have a ‘People’s Park’ complete with an amphitheatre, so I felt at home settling into the amphitheatre at the Nairobi Museum to listen to a Storymoja ‘Poetry Masterclass’ on ‘Grounding Your Work in Reality’, led by Sitawa Namwalie (Kenya), Liyou Libsekal (Ethiopia) and Duduzile Mabaso (South Africa).