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Street art: Loud message by unseen faces

Graffiti with encouraging words against Coronavirus pandemic at a wall along Coast General Hospital in Mombasa County. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

Street art and graffiti have been used as channels of communicating important socio-political messages.

One good example is when Boniface Mwangi, the photographer and activist, and his peers from Pawa254 took to the streets using graffiti as a tool of public protests.

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