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Kenyan music: A tale of foreign influences, aping?

By KIUNDU WAWERU and ABENEA NDAGO

With regard to music, one of the biggest ironies in the African continent involves Kenya and the former Zaire. How is it that Kenya, initially ruled by an anthropologist, is a mere ant beside the DR Congo music elephant, an empire synonymous with a journalist?

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