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How culture mistakenly portrayed Teso as cannibals

Faustino Ojuloto, 90, a Teso elder, shows a baobab tree under which elders used to dump skeletons of their ancestors during a special ceremony at Malaba in Busia County on Tuesday. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

A stone's throw away from Malaba River that marks the Kenya-Uganda border, we meet 90-year-old Teso elder Faustino Ojuloto who looks younger than his advanced age.

Ojuloto gives us a quizzical look that slowly fades into a smile that lights up his face.

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