(Fredrick Bosire, Swahili Lecturer, Shanghai International Studies University)
This comments and attempts to read out aloud Washikadau(Patrons), an interesting piece of poetry from Nairobi that I recently encountered. I dare presume that, the composer’s Chinese socialisation, study of Swahili and African Studies plus his studying abroad and immersion in the city life of Nairobi, which he thematises here, interplay uniquely as it externalises in this piece of work.