Kenya: Songbird Who Made Uhuru Dance Sponsored Back to School

18 January 2018

A popular Rift Valley songbird whose dreams to pursue secondary education was curtailed by poverty has been sponsored to return to class nearly 10 years after dropping out.

Fancy Chepkorir, who goes by the stage name Marion, composed a song in praise of Jubilee Party which hit the airwaves during the electioneering period and thrust her into the limelight.

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