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Sexual prowess to nil libido: Kenyan journalist with a semi-colon

Mr.and Mrs Brian Tetley after their nuptials are seen at the reception held at Starlight club ,Nairobi

One day in the 1960s, a white man walked into a bar on Government Road, now Moi Avenue, and confronted another white man at the counter.
"I'm told," he said challengingly, "that you can drink more than me. Let's settle that matter today once and for all."

This piece of information was contained in an obituary Brian Tetley wrote in honour of an old South African friend in 1995, and serves to illustrate the centrality of drinking in his life.

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