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We can grow our music to the level of Congolese rumba

Radio Presenters, Sugar Boy and Emmanuel Mwashumbe entertains fans during the Radio Maisha rhumba and Tusker Grill Master Summerland Pub. [David Gichuru, Standard]

There is a reason the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) identified rumba as a cultural product of the two Congos the same week the Kisumu-Nairobi railway resumed operations.

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