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ACPI 700      Kamukunji Women Group    Mamunyururagia/Tukite Kurima


ACPI 7001    Kamukunji Women Group    Utheci/Ndangienyenyeka

Possibly 701


ACPI 702      Kamukunji Women Group    Ungiurio Kanauri Mugikuyu/Riria Ngurima


ACPI 703      Kamukunji Women Group    Kenya Niyarimire/Bururi Uyu Witu


ACPI 704      Kamukunji Women Group    Hoyai - Ma/Kenya Itu


ACPI 705      Kamukunji Women Group    Mau Mau Mugumu Utomaga/Rugano Rua Kirima Gia Tumutumu


ACPI 706      Kamukunji Women Group    Pass Book/Twarikaniire Tukuwe Mugogo Uyu


ACPI 708      Ikinu Ndumo Group             Weru Weru/Nindahiruo (Gitiro)


ACPI 709      Ikinu Girls and Boys Group  Haiya Ihuiyi/Muthuri Arerire Mwari


ACPI 710      Jericho Harambee Group      Ndome/Kenyatta Agitwaruo Kapenguria


ACPI 712      Jericho Harambee Group      Kirinyaga Ni Kenya/Thuriu


ACPI 713      Jericho Harambee Group      Kenyatta Ni Aturire Mbeca/Njukia Ni Yaithiru


ACPI 714      New Loitokitok Band            Wendo Ni Murimu/Wanjiro


ACPI 718      Jericho Harambee Group      Kemathi Areriew Kanu/Bendera Kerinyaga


ACPI 720      Kamukunji Women Group    Njama/Jeshi ya Kenyatta


Catalogue       Group                                          A side/B side

Number

All of these records are by choirs singing in Kikuyu and seem to have been released in 1973. ACPI 703, 704, 705, 708 and 710 are described as folk songs in the British Library’s National Sound Archive. Other titles  suggest, to a non-Kikuyu speaker, a more political-cum-patriotic edge.


UPDATE, MAY 2017: The exception to this pattern seems to be ACPI 714, which is by a band, singing in Kikuyu, and was released in 1974.


The label also seems to have evolved into the Misonga label, which has the same prefixes and a very similar label design.

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