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Poet redefining art as she goes places with the power of spoken word

Artist Njeri Wangari. [Courtesy]

In the artistic world, the strive to stand out is inevitable. Hence, artists use unique styles to stream out their ideologies, making their presence felt through great works.

It happens that artistic forces of nature are brutal to those who toe the conventional ways of expression. They are cast into near-obscurity. Undeniably, there are millions of ‘other’ imaginative works that have collected dust in the bookshop shelves and attracted throw-away prices in the streets as the creative pieces of defiant authors who charted their own paths entice large audience.

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