Nairobi, April 30 -- It isn't over till the fat lady refuses to sing.

What it means is that the shows must go on until the last available paint brush dries up. This is the biggest honour that the art scene in Kenya can give to a man of the caliber of Patrick Mukabi who passed on April 23, 2026 because in his lifetime, art was his very essence of life.

He embraced it and taught it in all its forms to everyone that showed even the slightest interest. He was born into this world to be nothing else but a progenitor of art, the conduit through which all who would come to have an interaction with him would later come to the realisation that in his world, art was life and freedom in all its strokes and forms, shadows, lights and hues of colour...