When President Uhuru Kenyatta, speaking at the funeral of benga singer Joseph Kamaru on October 11, invited musicians from Murang'a County to State House, promising to "slaughter" something for them, he could not have imagined the eventual complexity of what he was proposing or the controversy he was fomenting.
An invitation made on impulse and one presumably intended for only Mt Kenya performers is reported to have drawn the interest of more than 10,000 people! What was intended as a small barbecue party for Kamaru's protégés aborted and suddenly boomeranged into what could become a national convention.
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