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It’s make or break for creative industry as artistes earn peanuts

Gospel singer Rufftone at Nambacha Primary School in Navakholo, Kakamega County, on June 12, 2015. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

Osumba Rateng’ is a frustrated man. The 75-year-old singer behind the Baba Otonglo hit has nothing to show for his work.

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