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Congo music: Lessons Kenyans can learn

With many genres and musicians coming up, Kenyans still need to do more in the industry writes Abenea Ndago

This year has seen the untimely deaths of two of the world’s most important cultural ambassadors. The Congolese rumba composer and TPOK Jazz singer Pepe Ndombe Opetum passed on around the same time we lost the late Prof George Saitoti,  Orwa Ojode, Nancy Gituanja, Luke Oyugi, Joshua Tunkei, and Thomas Murimi.

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