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Edwin 'edu' Ooro:Whatever you do, be the best

eduooroYou dance, train dancers, come up with dance steps and routines. This pays your bills. A married man with a six-year-old son. Did you father see this coming?

Never. My father is an engineer, of few words. He is one those strict fathers with a regular morning routing that includes shaving his beard using those Bic Razor or Gillette sticks. Telling such a man that you want to dance for a living is/would have been a disaster. I would sneak to jam sessions and to dance completions in Nairobi; everything was hush-hush, no telling him and him never seeing anything. This was late primary and high school.

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