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Picking the spoils of war long after the guns fall silent

By Philip Mwakio

Overgrown grass in a land dotted with acacia trees in Taita-Taveta stand over what was once a fortified military barrack, where a platoon of British forces took on the German army, who had pitched tent in the nearby Tanganyika (present-day) Tanzania.

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