Word: wainaina
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...hospital or if you lose your identity card, goes the lyric, to get anything done in Kenya you have to pay a bribe. Kenyans have adopted the song as an anti-officialdom anthem, and they flock to appearances by its 28-year-old writer and singer, Eric Wainaina. "We like it because it's the truth," says Judy Elahuya, a housekeeper. "For everything you must bribe. That really makes you angry." It's a culture "that disempowers people and makes us pay for things that are our right," says Wainaina, who is studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston...
...country. Says Ndii: "Liberalizing the market can really work." Unfortunately, it is a slow process in Kenya, in part because liberalization upsets so many vested interests. Real change will require more than a visiting vice squad. It will need a "complete cleanup, legally, morally, everything," says musician Wainaina. That would be something to sing about...
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