African Twist was all the rave. Daudi Kabaka had started a wildfire in Kenya. Another man from Kakamega, with a homemade guitar had created a new guitar picking style that nobody could replicate. He had created a smash hit, had a huge love scandal, and then died under tragic circumstances. But the legend of George Mukabi and his omutibo guitar had already achieved immortality.
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Sometimes I think about them, you know? The other half of my family. I think about the ones who left and wonder about what they’d think of us now.
You’ve only ever seen her before in the stuff that dreams are made of, surrounded in beams. That light, cloudiness.…
On many hot weekend afternoons in dusty Kitengela, 1994, daddy would plonk me onto our old brown living room table…