an audiovisual snap from www.norient.com
author article: Kamwangi Njue
snap remix: Raphael Kariuki
snap sound: KBC Radio news bulletin, 1998
snap design: dudusquad

Kamwangi Njue traces the story of political (i.e. conscious) music in Kenya, drawing on his own biography. He asks: Can conscious music achieve the impact it seeks when it has to play in the same sphere as popular music made purely for entertainment?

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NairobiConscious: Through the Airwaves

Norient is an audiovisual gallery and a community (of practice) for the sound of the world:
We conceive music, sound, and noise as seismographs of our time, 
facilitating space and place for thinkers and artists from over 50 countries to tell new and different stories of the now and tomorrow.