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Wachira Waweru keeps mwomboko tunes alive

By Emmanuel Mwendwa

Using the ancient accordion instrument played in accompaniment to percussive, clang sounds of the karing’aring’a metal rings — the artiste perpetuates catchy tunes of a rare genre traced back to the 1930s.

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