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Africa’s Van Gogh’: Feted abroad, unsung at home

Wakaba Mutheki [Courtesy]

It started with a Facebook post dated May 17 from one Kariz Paul: “If you are somewhere close to Sudan, Anthony Wakaba desperately needs your help where he is hospitalised.”

Before anybody could respond to the post, news filtered in that Anthony Wakaba Mutheki, one of Africa’s prolific artists had died in Sudan.

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