But when it came time to choose the subject for their video of the song "Matatizo" last year, the Kenyan musicians known as Just a Band abandoned the surreal and the ironic for the infamous torture chambers of Kenya's Nyayo House. They even posted a link on the YouTube page to a 77-page report on the victims of torture under former President Daniel arap Moi for good measure.
"We'll never solve things unless we stop sweeping things under the carpet," Bill Sellanga, one of the group's members, said backstage at a recent concert (...)
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Published by NY Times, January 8, 2014.