He attended college in Lindsborg, Kansas and graduated with a degree in Business Administration.
He later obtained an MBA at Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
After contemplating this for several years, he wrote a script for a Swahili movie.
According to him, the arrival of digital video cameras made it easy for independent filmmakers to produce movies cheaply.
After Bongoland, Kibira continued to write and make movies in Swahili.