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A collage of Xenia Manasseh and Blinky Bill. Kenya's mainstream music circuit is flourishing, and artistes who have the numbers are making money. The likes of Bahati, Otile Brown, Khaligraph Jones, ...

Protests against Kenyan President William Ruto have sparked a new wave of music, poetry and art. That's energizing the young Kenyans leading the protests, even as human rights groups say many of the ...

NAIROBI — The faces of slain protesters are painted on an alley wall in the Kenyan capital. Nearby, a community theater troupe acts out a random roadside arrest. Over the past year, thousands of young ...

Since independence, Kenyan musicians have developed unique ways of performing and writing music. It was in the mid-20th century that the genres of Benga, Bango, and Taarab were created by local ...

Afro Simba is a 10-year old band that explores the music of 9 indigenous coastal communities of Kenya, collectively called the Mijikenda. Now based in the capital Nairobi, the group’s Kombo Chokwe ...

Twelve contestants from various institutions across Kenya took part in the final of the Ninth Kenya Good Voice Chinese Singing Competition, held in Nairobi on Tuesday. The finalists performed a wide ...

In a small studio at Chuka University, Stephen Bucheri sits in front of his laptop, blending an AI-generated beat with his own live recordings. He is not waiting for record labels or expensive studios ...

When John Ouko walks the green, leafy paths of the Nairobi Arboretum, he sees thousands of tiny signs of hope for a tree that had been cut to the point that Kenyans feared they might lose it—the ...