Making music in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp | Songlines
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Making music in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp

By Mark LeVine

Kakuma Sound’s co-founder reports from one of the world’s largest refugee camps, an inspirational musical wellspring for social change

Burundi Turkana Festival Drums On Head Marching

Burundian drummers from Kakuma performing at the Lake Turkana Cultural Festival

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