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The govt stole our idea! Sauti Sol lashes out after Jamaican artiste launches Kenyan initiative

The Project dubbed “Studio Mashinani” is a series of digital studios to be put up in all the 47 counties in Kenya to enable the talented youth in the rural areas to create and commercialize their music

The interwebs are awake with the hashtag #IntellectualPropertyMustBeRespected since an article that ran on The East African revealed a project fashioned by Kenya’s leading boyband, SautiSol had been snatched up by the government without their consent.

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