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You can easily contract HIV from ‘kinyozi wa ndevu’

A barber attending to his customer           Photo:Courtesy

My head was well used to seedy kinyozi places with rickety tin-walls that squeaked with every whiff of the wind. But there was this one time I treated myself to an ‘executive’ haircut at an executive barber shop.

Nothing wrong with being philanthropic to my head, I thought.

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