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When revellers develop wings to fly across the land, fellow countrymen self-destruct

By Peter Kimani

Kenya: A fortnight ago, as I drove past Makutano on the Nairobi-Mombasa-Machakos intersection, I recalled reporting about a tragedy that befell some villagers there after consuming a lethal brew moons ago.

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