Fury as NCIC’s Kaparo investigates controversial Ikamba song

NCIC Chairman Francis Ole Kaparo (centre) says the commission will investigate the contents of a song by two Kikuyu artistes hurling insults to the Kamba community. [Photo by Peter Ochieng/Standard]

It was famous violinist Jean Sibelius who first said, “Music begins where the possibilities of language end.”

But perhaps the artistic duo, Isaiah and Waharaka, both of Kikuyu origin, took that meaning a bit too far when they released the now ill-fated Ikamba song on March 4.