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Nyokabi charts own path with art music

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When you press play on Nyokabi Kariuki's EP Peace Places Kenyan Memories, you are greeted with eerie, distorted voices counting down from 10 in Kiswahili, and then back up again, as weaver birds cackle in the distance.

This is immediately followed by a cacophony of voices, which brightly project one after the other in a scale as the cackling of the weaver birds grows louder, and then recedes.

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