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Papa Jey:I am a master of political songs

By Caroline Nyanga

The death of DO Owino Misiani in 2006 was a major blow to benga music fans who loved his political compositions. And as days turned to years, a new ‘political singer’ seems to have risen not from DO’s homeland in Shirati, Tanzania, but Suba in Kenya.

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