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The many mad, musical and melancholic stages of rapper Kantai Christopher Kantai [Photo: Courtesy] ‘Huu ni nani?’ This is what every young music lover in Kenya was asking in 2005 when one Christopher Kantai, who had just returned from the US where he’d been living, dropped a single by that name. Who is this? And he told us in his lyrics – ‘Ni Kantai, hajali G!’ (I’m Kantai, and I don’t give a damn). For whatever reason, the song caught on – maybe because it was that still magical year of 2005. When NARC was still intact, if fraying at the ages! When Kibaki was still an undis...

Deconstructing ‘Wee Kamu’: Why it could only have been created in 2003 Nonini [Photo:Instagram/noninimgengetrue] When ‘Wee Kamu’ by Nonini (Herbert Nakitari) came out in the year 2003, it caused a shock in the cultural system of a country still caught up in the euphoria of the 2002 General Election that had seen KANU’s four-decade reign come to a close, with the reins of power handed to the Rainbow Coalition. Eighteen years have not softened the hard-hitting nature of ‘Wee Kammu …’ The protagonist of the song, a naughty young Nonini sitting on the stairwell of his digs (in his...