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THE SHOW

Welcome to Makutano Junction – the Kenyan town where life is never dull. Here you’ll find all the complexity of modern Africa – as well as the laughter, the scandals, the loves and the losses – all playing out in a weekly TV drama series watched by millions of people around the continent.

Makutano Junction has been created to help people improve their lives. Every week the drama helps point out the ways we can make things better…

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THE STORY OF MAKUTANO JUNCTION

In 1965 a young man called Winston Ludwig Mabuki chanced on employment as a foreman with a road construction company working on the new East African Highway. The road went...

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THE CHARACTERS

Makutano Junction is a place in Kenya where things happen. And these things happen to a truly engaging bunch of people. There’s Red, the 17 year old daughter of the...

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FAMILY TREES

Find out who's related to who with the Makutano Junction Family Trees. You can click on each character to read more about them.

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