Evans Okoyo is a Kenyan poet who has been building quite a following on his Youtube channel. One poem, Amuna Wachne Rach (“Amuna, You are Bad News”) addresses alcoholism. Evans says that he was motivated to write this composition following the untimely deaths of some of his good friends.
The first few of minutes of the video introduce us to the central figure of the poem, a drunkard who begins conversing with “Amuna”, his bottle of liquor.
The poem begins at 3:12, performed in a Luo language with subtitles in English.
More poetry can be found at his Youtube channel — Evanso Poet.
