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The festival brought together established and emerging musicians from across Africa and the world.

These musicians brought out the emotions to the event as expected by fusing the Nyatiti sound with other instruments for an urban sound.

A prolific collaborator who has travelled extensively since leaving his Cuban homeland, Omar Sosa talks to Jane Cornwell about his fact-finding tour of East Africa and his new album, which sees him collaborate with some of the region’s leading folkloric musicians Omar Sosa (photo: Massimo Mantovani) Afro-Cuban pianist and composer Omar Sosa has always been a seeker, an artist driven to explore African musical cultures and their connections to his own ancestral roots. Along the way he has linked t...

Why future of our music lies in golden oldies 6 years ago    Ohangla sensation Osogo winyo(left) flanked with Tony Nyadundo before perfomance atthe Carnivore restaurant in Nairobi. Photo by WILLIS AWANDU/STANDARD   A local television station continues to expose exactly what goes on in the minds of most Kenyan musicians. The channel has helped us know that, however much we write about and support our music, nothing will happen till the day Kenyan singers decide to make very good use of their heads. In choosing to do so, perhaps our singers will have discovered that all world music as we kn...