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- ↑ New Internationalist, April, 2001 Translate this! Nairobi's hip hop scene asserts its African identity in the face of the bland imports of the global music industry
- 1 2 Africanhiphop.com Hip Hop in Kenya Archived 2007-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 3 4 Daily Nation, October 15, 2005: Popular rap singer dies
- ↑ "Poxi Presha website". Archived from the original on December 4, 2004. Retrieved 2017-05-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - 1 2 The Standard October 21, 2005 Poxi Presha: The inside story