EXCLUSIVE: Lovy Longomba tells all on his return to Kenya after fifteen years

Former secular musician Lovy Longomba, during an interview on March 26, 2021, at Palacina Hotel in Nairobi. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

We are seated in a room decorated with soft natural light and the orange-hued portrait of a black elephant at the Palacina Hotel, just off Dennis Pritt Road in Nairobi.

The room itself is like a Rubik’s Cube, off a reception outside a restaurant with a palisade that oversees a splash of plants that bespeak paleobotany.