Kenyan artistes finally perform at Smithsonian Festival

KENYAN musicians participating in this year's edition of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington D.C, USA, have downed their tools and silenced their voices over unpaid allowances by the Kenyan government. In a statement read at the fest on behalf of the Kenyan artistry contingent by legendary Afro-Folk artiste Ayub Ogada on Saturday, expressed the artistes frustrations, accusing the government of abandonment by forcing them to cater for their own expenses while they were on national duty. It read (verbatim): “We the artists from Kenya, left our families and traveled halfway across...