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Curse of superstitions that education has failed to slay

By PointBlank

People in Mt Kenya region laughing their heads off whenever they hear tales of hearses destined for Western Kenya that won’t jolt, allegedly because the departed are ‘too angry to go home’. As dead men have never been known to have the energy to tell tales, people wonder exactly where they get the strength to stall vehicles.

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