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Omolo Agar: Kenya’s first independent candidate who defied Kanu, Kadu

By Anderson Ojwang’

At the dawn of independence in 1963, a little known young man from Nyanza Province made history by becoming Kenya’s first independent candidate to get elected to the National Assembly.

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