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The ‘elephant in the room’ of coalition talks

By Mwenda Njoka

Dear reader, grant me the honour of recounting to you a little poem I came across some years back about an elephant in a room. The poem revolves around a huge pink elephant that was stuck in the middle of a room full of people. But for some strange reasons, no one was talking about the huge beast in the middle of the room although it was right at the centre of everyone’s mind.

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