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Rapture of Comedy

He has nearly seen it all in Nairobi's Mathare Valley. Poverty, drugs, crime and imminent death. However, comedy never deserted Ghetto Radio’s Raptcha Sayantist writes PETER NDORIA

Comedy was probably a self-prescribed medication in life for 31-year old Francis Kibe, aka Rapcha the Sayantist, growing up in Mathare Valley where he was born and bred.

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