The struggles of Peter Gachiego, better known as Maina ka Ngoma, sum up the double-faced and exploitative nature of Gikuyu benga music; the dark underbelly everyone wishes to keep well-hidden.

Benga as a genre evolved around the 1950s and was first common among Luo musicians although it also borrowed from both Congolese Soukous and South Africa's Kwela music and a bit of the Cuban music.

She credited God for her journey in music, as she next landed a space doing Kikuyu music "Jose Gatutura came, listened and ...