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PAUL ONDITI: Notes from a curious mind
Mystical, translucent and seductive. The works of Kenyan artist Paul Onditi are mesmerizing and intriguing. He is one of Kenya’s bright and upcoming contemporary artists who found his own style and voice a long time ago. Mixing and matching genres, materials, techniques and media is Onditi’s thing. Filmstrips, prints, layers of layers of ...
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The Luo-London Soundclash
Owiny Sigoma was the grandfather of Joseph Nyamungu. Owiny Sigoma is also the name of the music school in Nairobi where Joseph for years has been teaching his apprentices how to play the nyatiti, the eight-stringed lyre central to the music of the Luo tribe. One day in January 2009, five tall London-based musicians arrived ...
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Kenyan Encounters – from the Mau Mau to Obama
Denmark-based art collective Monsuna are not unfamiliar with embarking on cross-cultural journeys. A few years ago they travelled around the Baltic Sea with the Everybody dies for a reason performance. This year they embarked on an even further artistic expedition taking Kuldip Sondhi’s classic drama Encounter and bringing it into a contemporary context via none other than Karen Blixen ...