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The sting in Luo Culture

JAMES MWANGI takes you on a journey through Luo land and whips up a hilarious cocktail of tradition and cultural practices

Imagine a time, long before penicillin and you had the misfortune to catch lockjaw disease or Tetanus — a disease that clamped jaws shut.

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