Musician Daniel Owino, who goes by the name Futwax, performs his latest song “Have you sanitized?” — written and recorded in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — with his four-year-old son Julian Austin in their home in Nairobi’s informal Kibera community, on April 1, 2020. “I’m a community leader and icon here, and people listen to my music across Kenya,” said Futwax, also the former Mr. Kibera. “So it’s my duty to make sure that everyone knows what’s happening, and are doing what they can to try and stay safe. We have to be our own solution.”
Futwax also said: “Many people are still taking this too lightly. But if you’ve followed the situation in Italy, or Spain, we can assume that it’s going to get much, much worse here. So I’m asking people, before they greet me, or say hello to my son, ‘Have you sanitized?’
