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Hannah Wakesho aka Lioness Afreeka left Kenya for<br />
Italy in 2006 with one thing in her mind: She was<br />
going to be a hit! She was sure Italy would provide<br />
a platform for her to become a renowned musician<br />
whose rhythms would reverberate across the globe<br />
and make her an instant star. She had started out as<br />
a band musician in Kenya.<br />
“I did not know what awaited me. The suffering I<br />
would go through, and the tears I would shed in<br />
diaspora,” she says.<br />
Hannah was already a successful singer before she<br />
left. She was a member of one of the leading band<br />
in Kenya called “Big Matata” of the “fish and Chips”<br />
fame who regaled audiences with live performances<br />
in famous clubs such as Utalii, Zanze and Holiday<br />
Inn in Westlands. They toured different parts of<br />
Kenya and Africa for concerts. When she released<br />
her album “Tuliza Boli”, she got a bigger fan base in<br />
the local scene.<br />
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4THEDITION<br />
|JULY 2019
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