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Sculptor who paints and dines with heads of state

Portraits of former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan (left) and Prime Minister Raila Odinga by Joachim Ndalo. Photo/JACOB OWITI

Joachim Ndalo is well known by heads of state in Africa and abroad.

He is the artist who has painted and moulded sculptures of leaders such as US President Barrack Obama, the late South Sudanese leader John Garang, and former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan.

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