West Africa: Kokoroko – Evolving the Legacy of West African Music

[Afropop] The origin story of the band Kokoroko began, as all origin stories about humans and music do, in Africa. In this case, it was Kenya in 2014, in the town of Meru on the northeastern slopes of Mount Kenya. It was there where Sheila Maurice-Grey, who would become the trumpeter and its bandleader of Kokoroko, and percussionist Onome Edgeworth were spending some time working with an arts organization, teaching young people art, dance, and English. Both had previously been aware of each other in London but got