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Chief Justice Willy Mutung’s ‘Fundamentals’ note a pitch for local music

 

Last week, Chief Justice Willy Mutunga, made history of a kind. While emphasising the need for the media and the Communications Authority of Kenya to strike a deal on digital switch dispute, he quoted Ken wa Maria’s hit song Fundamentals.

It takes the humility of Dr Mutunga to voice such glowing compliment on an art that has long been considered a domain of social rejects with no intellectual substance to give society.

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