Jonathan Kinama, a low-level Kenya government employee, finds himself deeply entangled in the lifestyle of licentiousness and drunkenness that entraps many city residents. In Unfit for Human Consumption, David Maillu paints a raw, unflinching portrait of Nairobi's underbelly through Kinama's restless wanderings between the bank queues, smoky bars, cramped rented rooms, and government offices where petty corruption and empty ambition quietly thrive.