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Joy to the world, but no cheer for Kenyans from our local artistes

Kenya: Barring the fact that Christmas is a secular ritual traceable to the Roman Empire, does Jesus Christ usually smile from ear to ear each time a Christmas carol is sung to celebrate his birth?

It is difficult to tell, but he probably cherishes those timeless songs. At any rate, he has never returned in an ambush and roughed people up the way he did at discovering that some of his followers had turned his father’s church into a bubbling market yard. If so, then there is a very important musical lesson that the modern Kenyan singer can learn from Jesus.

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