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From Germany to Monaco, from Paris to New York and from Nigeria to Kenya, words are being turned into songs, stories, poems, movies and most recently Spoken Word.

What is Spoken Word? What is this phenomenon that is sweeping the continent by storm?
Wikipedia describes Spoken word is performance-based poetry that is focused on the aesthetics of word play and story-telling. It often includes collaboration and experimentation with other art forms such as music, theater, and dance.

Teardrop,one of Kenya’s top spoken word artists

In Kenya Spoken word is currently enjoying resurgence thanks to the popularity of a lyrical assassin named Teardrop, whom I came to know of in recent times. Yes, yes, I know I’m a little bit late to the party but it’s never too late to experience this interesting form of art delivered by the genius himself.

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Teardrops has been on the trend and word on the street is that this could be the new Juliani. And as it turns out the streets are right and they even gave homage to this poetic whiz kid