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Catalogue       Group                                                         A side/B side                                                       Year

Number

OMP 104      Utamaduni Jazz Band                       Ngai Mwega/Nairobi Ni Rui                       1975

OLYMPIC

The songwriter credited on this Kikuyu single is Francis Ringwiti, which sounds suspiciously like Francis Rugwiti, the leader of the Banana Hill Band. The musical style, according to the British Library’s National Sound Archive, is kwela, which seems unlikely.