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  Recently, Kenyan young and enterprising spoken word artist Gufy launched his album Misimu online. Misimu is a Kiswahili word for seasons. The album has five carefully chosen poems that have been performed in the most compelling way. Right away from the background music to the delivery, the poems ring nostalgia and pain that has always been the signature of the oppressed. They tell the story of Kenya’s post-election Violence to the present day fallacy of recycling leaders that clearly rings a bell to countries like Uganda, Rwanda, Zimbabwe and Kenya.   The first piece on the disc is called Hardships na silence. The piece has enough punch lines to cause what English based Jamaican poet Linton said, ‘this revolution shall not be televised.’   The lyrics, with lines like; “ tutakashifu uongozi mmbaya lakini tutawarudisha kwa power, wao hao ndio wanaotuletea madhara. Kama lugha ya mama sio sawa hakuna vile tutahusiana .”   Loosely translated to, “ We condemn bad lea...