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Missing bigger picture: Kenya's greatest export and how we underrate their acts of patriotism

Prince Harry posing with Daniel Wanjiru and Mary Keitany.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Yet most pictures tell a lie. Images are enhanced, filtered, photo shopped, staged and framed to make the subject more glamourous than they actually are. When you look keenly, the picture is often marketing or promoting some product or the other.

But once in a while, you run into a picture that makes you think. My picture of the past week was a human moment captured after the 2017 London marathon.

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