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Madaraka Day: Hope must define our collective destiny

Five decades ago, after years of strife, betrayal and suspicion, Kenya achieved internal self-government and began a rapid path to full Independence as a majority-ruled republic.

While our national consciousness recalls the frenzy of celebration attending this change, history records a more complex series of events fuelled by the ethnic and racial tensions of the day and the challenges facing the first majority-black Government in its infancy.

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